Nana Akua Afriyie is the New Patriotic Party Parliamentary Candidate for Ablekuma North

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Ablekuma North in the 2024 elections, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, has vehemently rejected the Electoral Commission's (EC) decision to rerun parliamentary elections in 19 polling stations within the constituency.

Speaking on Channel One TV on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, Afriyie questioned the rationale behind the EC’s directive, arguing that results from all but three polling stations in the constituency had already been collated.

She maintained that completing the collation for these three remaining stations would finalise the process and allow for a winner to be declared.

"I got the news from my national executives who represented us, but I am not happy with it. We are not going to accept this decision. My reason is very simple. We have gone through all the collation, and we are at three polling stations for us to complete the collation and declaration, and so, what's changed?” she stated.

Akua Afriyie further expressed her displeasure, noting that the Electoral Commission had previously corroborated her claim that results from only three polling stations were yet to be collated when it appeared before Parliament to provide updates under oath.

She voiced concern that the Electoral Commission’s "U-turn" could set a dangerous precedent, and if left unaddressed, might undermine the country’s democratic processes.

“We had EC coming to Parliament, swearing under oath that we have only three polling stations left. Consistently, that is what it has been throughout and so, if NDC is bent on taking the seat and going to an extent of requesting for a rerun, and if EC that has always insisted also that we are left with only three polling stations, comes back to say that ‘we have agreed on NDC's decision, then where are we meeting as a country?” she said.

“What I am saying is we are not going to agree. We are not agreeing to this. This can never be a solution. If an NDC tells you that this is a solution for a future something, we are rather jeopardising the situation. The country where we are now is not a democracy,” she added.

Her remarks were in direct response to the Electoral Commission’s announcement of a rerun of the Ablekuma North parliamentary elections in selected polling stations across the constituency.

In a statement issued on July 2, 2025, the EC explained that the rerun was necessitated by the fact that results from 19 polling stations used for collation had not been verified by the respective Presiding Officers.

“After extensive deliberations, the Commission informed the Political Parties that it would proceed to rerun the election in 19 out of the 37 Polling Stations. The Commission arrived at the decision to rerun the election in the underlisted Polling Stations because the 19 scanned Polling Station results used for the collation, though approved by Agents of both Political Parties, were not verified by the Presiding Officers responsible for those Polling Stations. The Election will be held on Friday, 11th July, 2025,” the statement read.

The EC further explained that initial calls for a rerun of parliamentary elections in all 37 polling stations were abandoned, as the Commission managed to obtain verification and confirmation from the Presiding Officers for 18 of the scanned polling station results.

The rerun elections are scheduled for Friday, July 11, 2025.

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