NPP set to challenge seven NDC parliamentary victories in court

The governing New Patriotic Party says it is preparing to challenge in court, the results of seven constituencies where the opposition NDC was declared the winner.

At a press conference Wednesday, the party’s 2020 campaign manager, Peter Mac Manu, listed Savelugu, Pusiga, Assin North, Bawku Central, Nkwanta North, Cape Coast North, and Asuogyaman.

The resort to court has become even more crucial as the NPP has no clear majority in parliament. After the December 7 parliamentary elections, the NPP and NDC are tied to 137 seats apiece with the only remaining set held by an NPP sympathetic independent candidate.

The NDC used the courts to help annex Sene West where a re-collation of a ballot box handed the NDC candidate, Kwame Twumasi Ampofo, a narrow victory by 16 votes.

The NPP has finally outlined its game plan of court battles in a bid to secure a majority in parliament.

Already, the party is sniffing around to ascertain the citizenship of the Assin North MP-elect James Quayson. The party has asked the Foreign Ministry to confirm if the NDC winner renounced his Canadian citizenship before filing to contest for the Assin North parliamentary elections.

The NPP went into the 2020 general elections with a comfortable 63 seat more than the NDC in the chamber of 275 seats.

But in what has been described as shocking, the party saw this lead wiped out by the NDC.

The NDC is claiming the Techiman South seat was wrongly collated in favour of the NPP candidate Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah.

At the Minority’s press conference on Tuesday, the NDC claimed its parliamentary candidate, Christopher Beyere, won the Techiman South seat by 293 votes.

Some 24 hours later, the NPP has insisted that its candidate, Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah, won the parliamentary seat with 477 votes as announced by the EC.

The NDC has resorted to street protests to compel the Electoral Commission to organise a re-collation of the results.

The NPP at the press conference Wednesday rejected the NDC claim over Techiman South as propaganda and lies. Peter Mac Manu said the NDC has given five different results to back their claim to the seat, pointing out that the opposition party “cannot tell consistent lies.”

The 2020 deputy campaign manager Mustapha Hamid also announced that unlike the NDC style of protests, the NPP would be more responsible in seeking redress at the courts.

He said the NPP has a “watertight” case to present in court over the seven disputed results.