Today, Friday, July 11, 2025, the Electoral Commission (EC) has declared that it is prepared to hold a rerun of the Ablekuma North Parliamentary election in 19 voting places.
6,839 voters are anticipated to cast ballots at the polls, which will open at 07:00 and close at 17:00.
The outcomes of the 19 polling places will round out the 281 polling place results needed to choose the winner of the December 7, 2024, inaugural Ablekuma North parliamentary election.
Dr. Bossman Asare, Deputy EC Chair in Charge of Corporate Services, stated during a news conference in Accra on Thursday that the rerun was necessary because the Commission wanted to resolve the Ablekuma North dispute.
He promised that the elections would be free, fair, and transparent while dismissing claims that the Commission was pressured by outside parties to hold the rerun.
“We state categorically that Ghana’s electoral management body is an independent body and will not be dictated to by any person or institution,” Dr. Asare stated.
Concerned about the anxiety its employees were experiencing during the Ablekuma North polls, the EC urged the Election Security Taskforce to ensure their safety by providing sufficient security.
“We trust that the police and the National Election Security Task Force will provide detailed security before, during, and after the process so we can vote and work in peace,” Dr. Asare continued.
The EC declared that it had decided to rerun the polls in 19 polling stations in order to break the deadlock in the Ablekuma North Constituency after meeting with the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party on Tuesday, July 1.
The Commission clarified that the 19 polling places were chosen because the presiding officers in charge of those polling places had not verified the scanned results utilized for the collation.
Initially, the results for all but three voting places were compiled by the EC. However, after the EC’s results sheets were destroyed on the day of collation, the NDC objected to the Commission’s use of scanned results sheets from the NPP, raising concerns about the process.
While the NPP insisted that the results from three voting places that were still open should be tallied in order to determine the winner, the NDC had demanded that the election be redone in 37 polling places.
On July 9, 2025, the High Court in Accra rejected an application filed by the NPP to temporarily stop the EC from holding new elections at 19 of 281 polling places.
Although her party first declared a boycott, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, the NPP parliamentary candidate for the Ablekuma North Constituency, who spearheaded the application, has stated that she would take part in the polls.
God First International School (Darkuman 1), Pentecost Church Mount Zion Assembly (Kwashieman), DVLA Office Awoshie Adamami 2, and Living Spring Day Nursery, Kwashie Bu 1 are the 19 voting places that are still open for the rerun.
The Lord’s Pentecostal Church is one of the others. Radiantway Preparatory School, Ateco School Complex, Odorkor; Kwashie Bu; Presby Church Odorkor 4; Church of Pentecost North Odorkor 4; Methodist Church Odorkor 1; St. John Baptist Church Odorkor 1.
They are as follows: MTTD Odorkor Divisional Station, Odorkor 1; South Odorkor 4 and 5 School, Odorkor 3; Pentecost Church, Tweneboa 2; Light of Gospel Miracle Chapel, Tweneboa 2; Roman Catholic Church, Busia Junction, Odorkor 1; and Bethel Baptist Church, Sakam 1.
Source: newsthemegh.com