Over her dead body! Akua Afriyie fights rerun attempts in Ablekuma North

Nana Akua Afriyie, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Ablekuma North, has pushed back against the call for a rerun in her constituency.

She emphasised that all the required documentation is in order, ruling out calls for a rerun stemming from disagreements over the collated results.

It will be recalled that on January 4, 2025, a High Court ruling instructed the Electoral Commission (EC) to complete the collation process and announce winners for four parliamentary elections that were still pending.

While results for three constituencies have been declared, the situation in Ablekuma North remains unresolved.

The collation process resumed on January 8, 2025, but was halted due to incomplete data from three polling stations.

The collation was finally rescheduled for January 17, 2025, but was subsequently suspended again due to an attack at the EC’s office a few minutes before the collation.

Amidst all these challenges, the NPP parliamentary candidate is opposing a rerun.

“The three polling stations, we have the pink sheets. We have the original pink sheets, and we have the scanned copies, so why the rerun? “I don’t agree in any way. We are not going for any rerun. We are going to collate those three polling stations,” Afriyie noted in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report on Channel One.

Meanwhile, the EC has emphasised that without complete protection from the security personnel, the collation would not resume.

As it stands now, Ewurabena Aubyn, the parliamentary candidate for the National Democratic Congress, and Akua Afriyie have erected billboards claiming victory, even though the Electoral Commission (EC) has yet to declare the final results of the parliamentary election.