Speaker welcomes Supreme Court’s decision to quash results in four constituencies
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has said that MPs-elect whose constituency results were nullified by the Supreme Court were not qualified to be sworn into the House.
Speaking on Saturday, December 28, Mr Bagbin supported the Apex Court’s ruling which nullified the re-collated results for the Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central, and Techiman South constituencies over irregularities.
The NDC had criticized the re-collation process as unlawful, accusing the High Court of overstepping its jurisdiction and undermining electoral integrity.
“The decision of the Supreme Court just followed the position I took before they even delivered their decision. To become a member of parliament, you have to be elected by the voter, and you have to be declared by the electoral commission.
“But you have to be sworn in by the speaker. Until you are sworn in by the speaker, you remain MP-elect. So I was very clear in my mind that some of those re-collation and re-declarations were completely null and void.
“They were unknown to the law and so they were not properly so-called MPs-elect and not qualified to be sworn in by me,” the Speaker stated.
Meanwhile, the court upheld the re-collated outcomes for Nsawam Adoagyiri and Ahafo Ano South West, affirming the legitimacy of the process in those areas.
However, issues surrounding the results for Dome/Kwabenya and Ablekuma North remain unresolved.