The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced a re-run of the parliamentary election at the Abokobi Women Training Centre 2 Polling Station in the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency. This decision follows the inability to declare a winner due to missing results from this polling station, which has 689 registered voters.
Out of 368 collated polling stations, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidates are separated by a narrow margin of 165 votes. The EC stated that the missing results could influence the election outcome and will await further directives from management on the way forward.
The NDC has rejected the EC’s decision to re-run the election in the affected polling station. Dr. Tanko Rashid-Computer, Deputy Director of Elections for the NDC, claimed that their candidate was leading by more than 1,000 votes based on the party’s tabulation, disputing the EC’s reported 165-vote difference.
Earlier, there was disagreement between NPP and NDC agents over whether the re-collation should proceed with the remaining three polling stations or include all 88 initially contested stations. The EC and NDC favored proceeding with the three remaining stations, while NPP’s parliamentary candidate, Mike Oquaye Jnr., proposed a recount of the 88 stations. The police established a barrier around the collation perimeter to manage the situation.
The re-collation exercise, initially suspended due to incomplete results from three polling stations, resumed at the EC’s Greater Accra Regional Office after an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee meeting. Security measures were heightened, with police blocking inner roads leading to the EC office.
The EC has indicated that if the vote difference remains minimal after re-collation, a re-run election in the affected polling station will be conducted to determine the winner.
