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The leadership of the ruling New Patriotic Party has ordered its agents at the Kadia electoral college, in the Savelugu constituency of the Northern Region, to sign the controversial pink sheets that capture the results of the polls in the area.
Party agents had refused to sign the pink sheets because they disputed the results of the parliamentary and presidential elections in the area.
In the meantime, Citi News Sources say that the party leadership had asked its agents in the area to endorse the electoral documents and go to court if they believed something adverse happened.
Meanwhile, the Ghana News Agency reports that Election Commission officials in the Savelugu constituency have declared the results in favor of the NDC parliamentary candidate, Abdulai Jacob Iddriss.
He obtained 19,577 votes against his PNP counterpart, Muhamed Abdul-Samed, who obtained 19,478 votes.
Despite the fact that PNP agents refused to sign the pink slip of the Kadia polling station where there was controversy, the EC went ahead to announce the NDC candidate as the winner.
The presidential and parliamentary ballot boxes that the police previously kept for security purposes were handed over for recount at the North Region Police Station.
The results for the other candidates are Haruna Zakaria, National People’s Convention (PNC) 149 votes, while Alhassan Iddrisu, an independent candidate obtained 10,294 votes.
The votes counted before, without the results of the Kadia polling station, put the NPP candidate in the lead with 19,328, NDC obtained 19,305, the independent candidate obtained 10,229, and the PNC obtained 147 votes.
In the Kadia electoral college, the PNP candidate obtained 150 votes, NDC, 272 votes, 2 votes for the PNC and 65 votes for the independent candidate.
The EC did not announce the results of the constituency’s presidential votes due to unresolved issues, including the refusal of PNP agents to sign the pink sheet.
No date has been given for the certification and announcement of the presidential results.
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GNA details were used in this piece
