Disputed Parliamentary Elections: Local government minister Korsah wins Techiman South seat for the NPP

The Minister of Local Government, Decentralization, and Rural Development, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, has been declared the winner of the 2024 parliamentary election for the Techiman South Constituency in the Bono Region.

The Techiman South Constituency was one of the nine constituencies whose results were outstanding.

According to the Electoral Commission, the returning officer for the constituency was assaulted and forced to declare the results in favour of the National Democratic Congress candidate, Christopher Beyere Baasongti.

The Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, had stated that the declaration for the constituency could not stand and ordered a re-collation of the results.

“The returning officer and other staff were physically assaulted and forced to re-declare the results at gunpoint. It is important to note that the collation process had not been completed. There also, the Commission would not uphold those processes,” she noted.

At the Greater Accra Regional Office, where the re-collation was done, on Saturday, December 21, 2024, the returning officer for the constituency announced that Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, the parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and incumbent MP for the area, won the election with 46,663 votes.

NDC’s Christopher Beyere Baasongti came in second with 43,429 of the total votes cast.

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