The NDC is suing the Electoral Commission (EC) to prevent them from redeclarating and recollecting the results of the Dome-Kwabenya, Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central, and Obuasi East seats’ parliamentary elections.
According to the NDC, the EC is no longer able to carry out these procedures.
This lawsuit comes after tensions and disagreements over the first results compilation have persisted. Citing procedural flaws, the EC has previously ruled that the parliamentary results for Dome-Kwabenya, Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, and Tema Central were invalid.
The results could not be upheld because they did not follow the procedures specified in CI 127, according to Samuel Tettey, Deputy EC Chair for Operations, who gave a press briefing on December 13 despite police being present at the collation centers to ensure the recollating processes.
The NDC and five other applicants are requesting in their notice of motion that the EC be declared “functus officio” and that it is not allowed to recollect, recount, or redeclarate the results since it has already declared the results for these constituencies with the NDC candidates as the winners.
Faustina Elikplim Akurugu, Baba Sadiq, Ewurabena Aubynn, Ebi Bright, and Samuel Aboagye are among the applicants in this case.
In the Dome-Kwabenya, Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, and Tema Central constituencies, the petitioners are requesting a “order prohibiting the respondent from re-collating, re-counting, and re-declaring the already collated and declared parliamentary election results.”
“A declaration that by virtue of Article 99 of the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana and section 16 of PNDCL 284, it is the High Court of Ghana that has the exclusive original jurisdiction to invalidate the declaration of parliamentary election results and not the respondent.”
