The Electoral Commission (EC) has declared a rerun of the parliamentary election at the Abokobi Women’s Development Centre 2 polling station in the Dome Kwabenya constituency.
This is follows a disagreement over the declaration of the results from the said polling station over a wrong pink sheet.
The results was filled on a training declaration sheet instead of the original one.
According to Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, the Director of Training at the EC, this led to the rejection of the results from that polling station on grounds of irregularity.
“The report from the returning officers was that they have concluded collating 367 polling station results. They were left with three of the results, and the three results were brought later. The commission rejected one of them outrightly on the stance that it was declared on a wrong statement of poll because they used training sheets, which is not the one that they should use.
“Upon adding the valid results from the other two polling stations to the existing tally, the margin between the two leading candidates narrowed to just 165 votes. The rejected polling station, Abokobi Women’s Development Centre 2.., If all those votes were allocated to the second-place candidate, it would change the outcome of the election,” he added.
This has warranted a rerun at that polling station to determine the final results for the Dome Kwabenya constituency.
“We will send our report to the Commission, which will decide on the date for the rerun. However, I can assure you that it will be conducted before the inauguration of Members of Parliament,” Dr Quaicoe stated.
Meanwhile, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is opposing the decision to rerun the outstanding polling station, claiming their candidate, Elikplim Akurugu has won and that the EC’s calculation was wrong.
Elikplim Akurugu of the NDC was earlier declared the winner of the parliamentary election in Dome Kwabenya.
However, her victory was marred by claims of irregularities.