Accra: The Electoral Commission (EC) has suspended the re-collation exercise for the Ablekuma-North Constituency due to a disagreement over the verification of the results sheets for seven outstanding polling stations. The exercise was interrupted again on Monday morning after the Presiding Officer for Ablekuma-North, Mr. Vincent Obeng, stated that he could not verify the results for seven out of the 281 polling stations.

According to Ghana News Agency, the Commission assembled Presiding Officers on Monday morning to verify the scanned results for some 20 polling stations whose results sheets could not be verified by the Commission during the re-collation exercise on Sunday. However, seven of the Presiding Officers did not appear at the Collation Centre, complicating the Commission's efforts to finalize the results and declare the winner for the highly contested race.

The agents of the National Democratic Congress provided the EC with the results for three polling stations, of which two had already been verified by the Commission. Mr. Obeng informed journalists that he was unable to continue with the re-collation, leading to his decision to suspend the exercise. He mentioned that the Management of the EC would decide on the next steps.

On Sunday morning, the EC resumed the re-collation of Parliamentary results for four outstanding constituencies following a High Court ruling. The ruling ordered the Commission to complete the collation of results for the Tema Central, Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, and Techiman South constituencies. Apart from the Ablekuma-North Constituency, the results for Tema Central, Okaikwei Central, and Techiman South were successfully re-collated and declared on Sunday.

The EC declared Patrick Yaw Boamah of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as MP-elect for the Okaikwei Central Constituency, while Charles Forson of the NPP was declared MP-elect for the Tema Central Constituency. The Commission also declared Martin Kwaku Adjei-Mensah Korsah of the NPP as MP-elect for Techiman South.