Dr. Sofo Rashid Tanko-ComputerSeven months after the December 7 parliamentary elections, the Ablekuma North Constituency remains without a representative in Ghana’s 9th Parliament, as results from the polls are yet to be officially declared.
The delay has been marred by sharp disagreements, with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) accusing the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of electoral fraud. The NDC alleges that the NPP is attempting to manipulate the collation process to secure victory.
Dr. Sofo Rashid Tanko-Computer, the NDC’s Deputy Director of Elections and IT, has accused the ruling party of trying to sway the Electoral Commission (EC) using illegitimate documents.
“The process is that they needed to bring their pink sheets, they are supposed to have the original pink sheets, we the political parties are supposed to have carbon copies, not scanned copies,” Dr. Tanko said in an interview.
“Who deals with scanned copies? Under CI 127, there is nothing like scanned copies. It is talking about carbon copies given to political parties and they keep the original and at our Inter- Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) Meeting the EC told us that they have lost all the original copies and we the political parties also indicated we lost it because of the violence that happened on that day.”
Dr. Tanko, who also heads the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), has called for the arrest of NPP members allegedly involved in manipulating the election outcome.
The Minority Caucus in Parliament intensified pressure on the authorities on June 4, 2025, by marching from Parliament to the CID Headquarters. Their aim was to submit a petition to the Inspector General of Police, demanding that the EC be given adequate security to safely and properly collate the outstanding results.
Despite the EC’s silence, the NDC continues to insist on a rerun of the election in the affected areas.
When asked by the host of 3FM’s ‘Hot Edition’ about the party’s next steps, Dr. Tanko Computer responded: “Our next step is that they must make sure that we go back and have elections for the 62 polling stations. The Electoral Commission cannot declare it without going through the right process.”
He further accused the NPP of fabricating results in their offices.
“Yet NPP will go and sit at their party office and cook figures, scanned them and bring them and EC is trying to rely on those scanned copies to declare. We will prevent it, we are not going to accept it.”
As tensions remain high, the future of Ablekuma North’s representation in Parliament continues to hang in the balance.
