LIVESTREAMED: EC commences re-collection of Ablekuma North parliamentary results

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has commenced the re-collation of the 2024 parliamentary election results for the Ablekuma North Constituency in the Greater Accra Region.

The Ablekuma North Constituency is the only constituency out of the 276 whose results are still outstanding.

The collation is going on at the Greater Accra Regional Office of the commission on January 8, 2024.

The EC, at its Greater Accra Regional office, on December 10, 2024, declared the candidate of the National Democratic Congress, Ewurabena Aubynn, as the winner, beating NPP’s Nana Akua Owusu Afriyieh, a former MP and the current Deputy Chief Executive of the Coastal Development Authority.

But the EC later nullified the declaration of Ewurabena Aubynn as Member of Parliament-Elect for the area, stating that the results for the constituency would be re-collated.

The Chairperson of the Commission, Jean Mensa, explained that NDC’s Ewurabena Aubynn was declared the winner of the constituency’s seat without the results of 62 polling stations.

“In the Ablekuma North constituency, 219 polling station results were used to declare a winner instead of 281 polling station results. The Commission would not uphold that declaration,” she said at a press conference on Thursday.

The recollation follows a High Court ruling on Saturday, January 4, 2024, which granted an application by the NPP seeking to compel the EC to complete the collation of parliamentary results for the constituency.

Justice Forson Agyapong, who presided over the case, ruled in favor of the NPP, issuing an order of mandamus that compelled the EC to complete the collation process.

In his judgment, Justice Agyapong stated that the EC had failed to collate results from 31 outstanding polling stations in the constituency, which was a breach of its obligations.

The court subsequently ordered the EC to collate the results from the remaining polling stations and incorporate them into the already collated figures.

Watch a livestream of the recollation below:





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