The NPP has filed a legal action at the High Court seeking to stop the Electoral Commission (EC) from rerunning the parliamentary election in 19 polling stations within the Ablekuma North Constituency.
The party’s 2024 parliamentary candidate for the area, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, is the applicant in the suit, which also names the EC as respondent, with National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate Ewurabena Aubynn and the NDC itself listed as interested parties.
In the motion filed by her lawyers, Marfo and Associates, Owusu Afriyie is asking the court to issue an order of certiorari to quash the EC’s July 1 letter and July 2 press release announcing the rerun. She is also seeking an order of prohibition to prevent the EC from conducting any fresh polls in the 19 polling stations scheduled for July 11.
According to the affidavit in support of the application, the EC’s decision contradicts a High Court ruling delivered on January 4, 2025, which directed the Commission to complete collation of the remaining 62 polling station results and declare the winner. The applicant argues that the ruling remains binding and has not been varied, stayed, or overturned by any higher court.
Owusu Afriyie insists that the EC’s rerun decision is an arbitrary and wrongful exercise of discretion, and breaches both the 1992 Constitution and the Commission’s own regulations under C.I. 127.
The NPP further claims that polls were successfully conducted across all 281 polling stations in the constituency, and that the EC’s only lawful option was to conclude the collation and announce the final outcome—not to rerun elections in select areas.
The EC, however, maintains that the scanned pink sheets submitted by the NPP for 19 polling stations lacked verification by presiding officers, necessitating a rerun to ensure electoral integrity.
