There was no comparison of results in Techiman South – confirms Samson Ayenini

Politics of Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Source: My GH news

2020-12-29

Samson Lardy Ayenini, a private attorney and host of the current affairs program NewsFile, has said that for now there is confirmation that the Ghana Election Commission did not collect parliamentary results from the Techiman South constituency.

According to the lawyer, this is a violation of a requirement of Regulation 43 of CI 127.

The EC has stated that the PNP candidate, Martin Adjei Mensah-Korsah, won with 49,682 votes representing 50.2 percent of the total valid votes cast, while the NDC candidate, Christopher Beyere Baasongti, obtained 49,205 votes. They represent 49.8 percent of the total valid votes cast.

On this basis, the PNP candidate was declared an elected deputy for Techiman South.

The opposition NDC, on the other hand, has notified that it will not sit quietly on “the sham of justice” that threatens to deny its parliamentary candidate for Techiman South in the 2020 general election, Christopher Beyere Baasongti, the right to represent to the people of the constituency in parliament.

At a press conference last week, the Minority Caucus in Parliament said that a simple compilation of all the results from the polling stations in the constituency shows that Beyere won the seat by 293 votes, garnering 50,306 votes against 50,013 for the ruling New Patriotic Party, Martin Kwaku Korsah.

The EC has been asked to do the right thing by collecting the results and publishing them.

But in a brief, lawyer Ayenini said that the EC must also apply the law to punish its official at Techiman South for not collecting the results.

He wrote among others; “… In the meantime, it is an established fact, for now, that the EC officer at Techiman South did not collect (Form One C) as required by Regulation 43 of CI 127.”

“Is the EC thinking of being considered as if he had committed a crime as required by Regulation 45 of IC 127?” he wrote.

Read their full review below:

Pray – A true horseshoe parliament with only one independent session on the curve at the beginning of January 7, 2021. Equal numbers on each side as there is no majority party.

A majority party would have sat on the right side and the minority party on the left. There is the beginning of the problem. Who sits where because whoever gets to form the majority caucus (not the same as the majority party), will only be able to form it after a speaker has been chosen and the independent officially writes to inform the speaker of their decision to do business with that match. So until the president is elected and the processes are consummated, there will not be a majority group.

This means that there will be a decision on the majority of regular / traditional seats for a majority party when the chamber meets on January 7. A speaker must be chosen before elected parliamentarians can be sworn in and for the caucus to form, right? If Hohoe’s court order is in effect or confirmed to affect January 7, the matter comes to NPP.

There are many reasons why public comments from both sides should reflect this 137 versus 137 dilemma. If the president decides or is forced by this outcome 137 to have no more than 80 ministers, 41 of that number will come from the PNP’s 137 . It will be left with less than 100 deputies guaranteed to be present in the jurisdiction and in the house. forever.

Consensus building is not an option in the eighth parliament, even if the NDC ever succeeded in overturning the presidential results and formed the government. Meanwhile, it is an established fact, for now, that the EC officer at Techiman South did not match (Form One C) as required by Regulation 43 of CI 127.

Does the EC think that he is being tried as if he had committed a crime under the provisions of Regulation 45 of IC 127?