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Senior National Democratic Congress (NDC) member Haruna Iddrisu has challenged the Electoral Commission (EC) to produce the Techiman South constituency poll statement.
He reiterated that the law requires it for the sake of transparency.
The Tamale South MP said his lawsuit follows a visit to the Techiman South constituency with the party’s secretary general, Johnson Asiedu Nketia and Colonel Gbevlo Lartey.
According to him, they were deeply disappointed in the conduct of the EC and its officials.
“We cannot even find, released in the name of transparency, the Survey Statement, which is a requirement of regulation 43 of the CI law. This is the enabling regulation of the electoral process in Ghana that requires the certified results collected from the polling stations to be made available and declared in the presence of party agents or their representatives, ”he said.
He said that neither the constituency Return Officer nor the regional Return Officer were able to present the Poll statement or even the declared results to the NDC, indicating that the Techiman South results have simply disappeared.
To this end, he said: “[this] The charade will not be accepted by the NDC. That is why we simply cannot accept the outcome of this election. “
Techiman South became the center of controversy after confusion erupted when NDC supporters prevented the president from declaring the PNP parliamentary candidate Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah the winner.
Reporting on the incident, JoyNews correspondent Anas Sabit said that the NDC had previously announced that the party had retained the seat, therefore it came as a surprise when the election official said that his opponent had won the election.
In the skirmish that followed, two people suffered gunshot wounds when police tried to disperse the crowd.
Subsequently, the EC declared the PNP parliamentary candidate the winner; a verdict that the NDC has rejected and intends to overturn.
“As far as we are concerned, an aggregation will reveal a victory for the NDC that the PNP is desperately fighting to rob and steal in collusion with election commission officials,” said the minority leader.
He called on the EC to duly make the Techiman South results public to calm minds.
“Let them make their results public, then we will know what the NPP got against the NDC or the NDC against the NPP. We just can’t find that, so it means it’s a robbery in broad daylight and a lack of respect for Ghanaian laws, ”he said.
