Mahdi Gibril, Deputy Director of Elections for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated the opposition expressed by the “useless New Patriotic Party” following the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to rerun the parliamentary election in 19 polling stations in Ablekuma North is nothing short of hypocrisy.
Speaking in an interview on Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5FM, he said the NPP has been disgraced and is only engaging in falsehoods just to court public sympathy.
General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Kodua Frimpong, addressing a press conference on Thursday, July 3, 2025, said the party rejects the decision by the EC.
“At the meeting with the EC on July 1, our representative — our Director of Elections, Evans Nimako, and the former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central, Ebenezer Nartey — vehemently opposed the decision by the EC,” Mr. Frimpong said.
“So it cannot be that after extensive discussions, the EC is painting the picture as if the party [NPP] present there agreed. The NPP reps at the meeting opposed the EC’s position.”
But reacting to the concerns raised by the NPP, he stated that the contest in the constituency has been a subject of disagreement and the best option available was to organise a rerun in the polling stations that have been subjected to disagreements.
He said constituents in the constituency have been denied a Member of Parliament through unfair technicalities.
“The NPP is making noise and only deceiving the Ghanaian public. The election is in dispute and the validation of the collated results has been challenged. Therefore, if the EC has announced a rerun in the affected areas, so be it. Ablekuma North constituency must get an MP, whether on the ticket of the NDC or the NPP. However, the best solution is the rerun announced by the EC.
The accusations by the NPP regarding the election in the constituency expose the party’s hypocrisy and demonstrate that it is a useless party. They were in office and failed to crack down on their allegations of violence during the collation of the results. This would not be the first time a party has refused to contest an election. Deciding not to contest will not deprive the people of electing their representative. I would have, however, preferred they contested so that the people could decide whom they would vote for in the July 11, 2025 rerun.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
