Cancelled Election Results: Don't tempt us beyond our endurance – NDC's Omane Boamah warns Jean Mensa

Director of Communications and IT for the National Democratic Congress, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, has accused the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Jean Mensa, of colluding with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to reduce the two-thirds majority achieved by his party in the 2024 parliamentary elections.

Reacting to a press conference held by the Commissioner on Thursday, where she announced a decision to reject the results declared for some constituencies, Mr. Omane Boamah also accused Madam Jean Mensa of refusing to grant the NDC’s request to convene an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting and asked her not to test the endurance of his party.

“Useless press conference by Jean Mensa. She has obviously been instructed by NPP to dilute the 2/3 majority of NDC. But she will fail! She must not tempt us beyond our endurance! We mean business! At all constituencies where the declaration was not done, the Electoral Commission Ghana must have pink sheets that show that NDC won.

“Instead of agreeing with our demand for an emergency IPAC meeting, she has decided to hide to avoid critical questions being asked at the IPAC meeting. Shameful!” he added.

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), Jean Mensa, speaking at a press conference on Thursday, December 19, 2024, justified the decision of the commission to nullify the declaration of parliamentary election results for three constituencies in the Greater Accra Region.

Speaking at a press briefing at the EC headquarters in Accra, Jean Mensa said that returning officers who declared the results for these three constituencies - Tema Central, Okaikwei Central, and Ablekuma North - were forced to do so without following the required processes.

She added that in all of these three constituencies, the winners were declared without the results from a significant number of polling stations.

In the Okaikwei Central Constituency, for instance, the EC boss pointed out that the winner was declared without the results of 31 polling stations and in the Ablekuma North Constituency, without the results of 62 polling stations.

“In Okaikwei Central, I did mention that 110 polling station results were used to declare a winner instead of 141. The commission would not uphold that process.

“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. In Tema Central, the DO again was threatened and he was forced to declare results using 146 polling stations instead of 148. The commission would not uphold that declaration,” Jean Mensa said.

She indicated that for the other remaining six constituencies, including Ahafo Ano South-West, Ahafo Ano North, and Nsawam Adoagyiri, supporters of the political parties besieged the collation centres, which disrupted the process.

She said that for these constituencies, no winner was declared, and measures are being put in place to complete the process.

In all three constituencies in the Greater Accra Region, parliamentary candidates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) were declared winners.

In Okaikwei Central, NDC’s Baba Sadiq was declared the winner, beating the incumbent New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament, Dr. Patrick Boamah; in Ablekuma North, NDC’s Ewurabena Aubynn beat NPP’s Nana Akua Owusu Afriyieh; and in Tema Central, NDC’s Ebi Bright was declared the winner.