'Electoral crimes have no expiry date' - Fifi Kwetey sends coded message

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Fifi Kwetey, appears to have sent a strong warning to the Electoral Commission of Ghana over the ongoing re-collation and re-declaration of some parliamentary seats initially won by his party.

In a post shared on social media on Saturday, December 21, 2024, Fifi Kwetey said that electoral crimes can be prosecuted no matter the time that goes by.

He added that the day of reckoning is coming for the persons committing these crimes.

“Electoral crimes have no expiry date. After Jan 7, the time of reckoning will come!” the NDC General Secretary wrote on X on Saturday, December 21, 2024.

His post comes as the Electoral Commission went on with the re-collation or continued collation of the parliamentary election results for nine disputed constituencies.

The initial winners of the parliamentary elections for the nine constituencies in question were either nullified after their declarations or not declared at all by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC).

Before the re-collation and re-declaration exercise, the NDC claimed it had acquired a court order that bars the EC from going on with the declaration.

The party has held the position that the electoral laws of the country state that once election results are declared, the only way they can be challenged is in the courts.

They contend the re-collation and re-declaration exercises were illegal.

After the exercises on Saturday, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidates in seven respective constituencies were declared winners.

Four seats, which were initially declared for the NDC, namely Obuasi East, Okaikwei Central, Tema Central, and Techiman South, were re-declared in favour of the NPP.

The Nsawam Adoagyiri, Ahafo Ano South West, and Ahafo Ano North constituencies, which were initially incomplete, were also declared in favour of the NPP.

Two constituencies - Ablekuma North and Dome Kwabenya - are, however, yet to be determined.

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