Court throws out NDC injunction, orders EC to re-collate Ablekuma North election results

A High Court in Accra has reportedly ordered the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) to re-collate the parliamentary election results for the Ablekuma North Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, despite the opposition of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

According to broadcaster Serwaa Amihere, the court, on Friday, December 20, 2024, ordered the EC to re-collate the results for the constituency and re-declare the winner.

The EC, at its Greater Accra Regional office, on December 10, 2024, declared the candidate of the National Democratic Congress, Ewurabena Aubynn, as 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 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 NDC sued the Electoral Commission (EC) over the re-collation of five constituencies where their parliamentary candidates had earlier been declared winners, including the Ablekuma North Constituency.

The action filed on Monday, December 16, 2024, is seeking an order of judicial review in the nature of Declaration, Certiorari, Prohibition, and Injunction.

Per the action, the NDC, which is the 1st Applicant, contends that declarations made in the December 7 elections in favour of Faustina Elikplim Akurugu (Dome Kwabenya), Baba Sadiq (Okaikwei Central), Ewurabena Aubynn (Ablekuma North), Ebi Bright (Tema Central), and Samuel Aboagye (Obuasi East), 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Applicants, cannot be re-collated and re-declared.

The NDC again submitted that the EC, following their earlier declarations, “has become functus officio and therefore cannot re-collate, recount, and re-declare the results of the already declared election results in the stated constituencies.”

The party is also seeking an order prohibiting the respondent from re-collating, re-counting, and re-declaring the already collated and declared parliamentary election results in the Dome Kwabenya, Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central, and Obuasi East constituencies.

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