By Mavis Paintsil
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the electoral commission (EC) and security agencies to immediately half the recollation and redeclaration of all disputed parliamentary results.
According to them, they said, what is happening at the polling training school amount to illegality. It is not founded on y laws of our elections, neither is it based on any consensus that has been reached between the parties and the EC, he continued.
it was unaware of the process which is currently ongoing at the Police Training School at reasons describing it as an illegality.
Nine parliamentary election results including that of Fanteakwa North, Nsawam Adoagyiri, Tema central, Techiman South, Ablekuma North are currently being contested by the NDC and the New Patriotic Party.
The National Chairman of the NDC, Mr Asiedu Nketia, SD that the decollation and redeclaration of Parliamentary results by persons other than the parliamentary Returning Officers (ROs) mandated under the electoral laws were illegal and would not be regarded by NDC.
Mr Nketia affirmed that, the recollation and redeclaration of Fanteakwa North, Akwatia and Suhum were alien to the electoral process, hence the action of NDC to seek legal redress.
He added the that the process of our election is quite clear, after voting votes are counted and the results are entered on what we call the result declaration forms or the pink sheets.
The Presiding Officer at the polling stations after which all party agents sign and then are given copies of their results, the NDC chairman who has been in the witness box twice in an election petition, Mr Nketia said that EC officials who declared different set of results at different times may find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
The chairman advised the chiefs to be abstain from partisan politics as indicated in the constitution, stating that if they choose to descend into the arena of controversy will be obvious.
The NDC National Chairman also advised the leader of the NPP in Parliament, Alex Afenyo-Markin, to seek redress over any process it deemed as illegal in court.
Ghanaian announcer