The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has declared its intention to pursue legal action aimed at preventing the Electoral Commission (EC) from carrying out a rerun in certain polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency.
This decision comes in response to the EC's statement regarding its plan to hold a rerun of the parliamentary election in 19 polling stations within the constituency.
The EC, in its statement, explained that the rerun was necessary because the Presiding Officers responsible for the selected polling stations could not verify scanned polling station results used for the collation, although they were approved by agents of both political parties.
Addressing a press briefing in Accra on July 3, the General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Kodua Frimpong, argued that the EC lacks the legal basis to call for a rerun in only selected polling stations and said the party will take the matter to court.
“The NDC knows that they lost the election. We are in the NPP, shall stop at nothing in our quest to ensure that the power that has been respected and upheld by the democratic rights and sovereign will of the people of Ablekuma North, as expressed by them on December 7, 2024, is upheld. Therefore, we have caused our legal directorate to challenge the directive in court. We shall file in court and challenge the whimsical, capricious directive by the EC,” he said.
The EC has scheduled the rerun for July 11, 2025.
