An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Rev. Fr. Joseph Adu Owusu Agyemang, has, ordered the Electoral Commission of Ghana to re-collate and declare the parliamentary elections results for all the 9 disputed constituencies.
The constituencies include are Ablekuma North, Nsawam Adoagyiri, Okaikwei Central, Obuasi East, Ahafo Ano North, Ahafo Ano South West, Tema Central, Dome Kwabenya and Techiman South constituencies
This follows a Mandamus Application filed by the Legal Affairs Director of the NPP, Gary Nimako Esq. for and on behalf of party’s parliamentary candidates in the affected constituencies seeking to compel the EC to discharge its constitutional and statutory functions of collating and declaring election results in accordance with law.
The court further ordered the security forces particularly the IGP, Dr. Akufo Dampare to provide Armed Security to ensure that the exercise goes on in a serene environment as required by law. This has become necessary in order to forestall the chaos that characterized the previous attempted collation of the parliamentary results of these constituencies.
The court also heard a Judicial Review Application filed by the NDC for an Order of Certiorari and Prohibition directed at the EC to quash its decision to re-collate the results of the 2024 parliamentary elections of 5 out of the 9 constituencies on grounds that same had already been declared by the various EC Returning Officers, and to prohibit or injunct the EC from undertaking any re-collation.
The judge took cognizance of the conduct of party thugs who besieged the various collation centres and forced EC officials including Returning Officers to declare incomplete results for their preferred candidates contrary to law, and concluded that a court of law CANNOT lend its support to clear acts of lawlessness and illegality.
Perpetrators of illegality, according to the court, cannot benefit from their illegal acts. Consequently, the court ruled that all such declarations made under duress including threats, as determined by the EC, are null and void, and of no effect.