Ghana’s Electoral Commission has announced that there will be a rerun in some selected polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency.
This was contained in a statement issued by the commission on July 2, 2025.
According to the EC, after an extensive deliberation, the commission informed the political parties that it will proceed with a rerun of 19 out of 37 constituencies.
The decision was reached after realising that although the scanned copies of the results from these 19 polling stations were approved by agents of both political parties, they were not verified by the presiding officers responsible for the polling stations.
There will not be any election in 18 polling stations which had their results verified by the presiding officer.
The rerun, according to the EC, will take place on Friday, July 11, 2025, at these 19 polling stations in the constituency.
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The Electoral Commission has, since December 7, 2024, after the election, not been able to announce the winner of the Ablekuma North seat.
This was after a misunderstanding between the two major political parties on the authenticity of some scanned results during the collation process.
There have been several efforts by the EC to collate the results, but it has always ended in a stalemate, as both of the leading political parties do not seem to agree on the results.
The last time the EC tried collating the results after a court order for them to be protected by the Police, some party supporters besieged the office of the Electoral Commission and destroyed property.
The Minority in Parliament have since staged a walk to the Office of the IGP to inform him of the need to provide the needed security for the collation to take place.
