The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced a rerun of the parliamentary election in the Ablekuma North constituency in Accra. This rerun will take place at 19 polling stations on Friday, July 11, 2025. The decision follows more than seven months of delays in collating and announcing the election results, which were disrupted on December 7, 2024, leading to the destruction of some result sheets.
An earlier attempt by the commission to use duplicates of the destroyed sheets was met with disagreements regarding their validity, causing further delays in declaring the final results. In a statement released on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, Samuel Tettey, the Deputy Chairman in charge of Operations at the EC, explained that the decision to conduct a rerun was made after extensive discussions with representatives from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Despite several meetings, the two parties remained divided for months. The latest round of talks occurred on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, following previous discussions held on June 12. The dispute revolved around 37 pink sheets submitted by the NPP during the collation process. The NDC questioned the authenticity of the scanned copies and called for a rerun in all 37 polling stations. However, the NPP maintained that 34 of the pink sheets had already been validated, leaving only three outstanding.
Mr Tettey explained that although party agents from both sides had approved the scanned results from 19 polling stations, the presiding officers responsible for those centres had not verified the forms. He said this led the commission to conclude that a rerun was necessary in those stations. “The 19 scanned polling station results used for the collation, though approved by agents of both political parties, were not verified by the presiding officers responsible for those polling stations,” Mr Tettey said.
He added that the commission had since received verification from presiding officers for the remaining 18 polling stations originally under dispute, making a rerun unnecessary in those locations. The controversy dates back to December 2024, when the collation process in Ablekuma North was disrupted. According to the EC, some political party supporters entered the collation centre and destroyed several pink sheets, halting the process. Ahead of the rerun, the commission has requested support from the Ghana Police Service to maintain order at the affected polling stations. Once the rerun is completed, the results are expected to bring finality to the 2024 parliamentary elections and restore full membership in the 276-seat Parliament.
By: Mohammed Ali
