The National Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has expressed strong optimism about his party’s chances in the upcoming Ablekuma North parliamentary re-run.
The opposition party’s spokesperson said the NPP’s parliamentary candidate Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie will floor the NDC’s Ewurabena Aubynn and emerge victorious no matter what.
In a post on social media on Wednesday, July 2, Ahiagbah criticised the Electoral Commission (EC) for what he described as capitulating to pressure from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and government.
According to him, the EC’s decision is inconsistent with its handling of a similar case in Dome Kwabenya, where the NDC candidate was declared winner without a re-run.
“The EC has capitulated under the backbreaking pressure of the NDC and government to re-run the Ablekuma North parliamentary election in 19 stations, which differs from how they resolved Dome Kwabenya. Why didn’t the EC do a re-run in Dome Kwabenya?
“The will of the good people of Ablekuma North will stand. Victory no matter what….” he wrote.
This follows the EC’s announcement of a re-run in 19 out of 37 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency, which has remained without a Member of Parliament since the 2024 general elections.
The re-election is scheduled for Friday, July 11, and was agreed upon at a meeting between officials of the NPP and NDC on Tuesday, July 1.
In a statement dated July 2, the EC explained that the NDC had demanded a re-run in all 37 polling stations, while the NPP believed that results from three remaining polling stations should simply be collated and declared.
