Salam Mustapha, the National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated that every election in Ghana will be chaotic if the Ablekuma North rerun stands.
His comment comes on the back of the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana announcing that it will conduct a rerun of the Parliamentary Election in 19 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency.
Samuel Tettey, Deputy Chairman of Operations at the EC, in a press release dated July 2, noted that the decision was reached following consultation between the NDC and the NPP on July 1, 2025.
The EC has decided to rerun the election in 19 of the 37 polling stations, citing that although the scanned results from these stations were approved by both party agents, they lacked verification by the Presiding Officers.
The rerun in Ablekuma North is scheduled for Friday, July 11, 2025.
According to Salam Mustapha, every election will be chaotic in Ghana because a party’s losing an election will just cause confusion and destroy everything if the Ablekuma North rerun stands.
He stated, “I can bet you that if this one stands, every election will be chaotic in this country because if we see that we are losing, we will just cause confusion and destroy everything.
They are teaching us a new method of running elections in this country. Our official position is that we are left with three polling stations. We will not accept any rerun,” he added.
“Electoral Commission has held on to its position for the past seven months. The official position of the EC when Bossman Asare went to Parliament was that there were three left to be collated. So, how come the commission’s position has changed when it is not even three weeks since the EC went to Parliament?” he questioned.
Meanwhile, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated that they will go to court to stop the Electoral Commission (EC) from conducting a rerun of the Ablekuma North Constituency election.
According to the NPP, the EC lacks the legal basis to call for a rerun in only selected polling stations.
Speaking at a press briefing in Accra on July 3, the General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Kodua Frimpong, stated, “The NDC knows that they lost the election. We are in the NPP, shall stop at nothing in our quest to ensure that the power that has been respected and upheld by the democratic rights and sovereign will of the people of Ablekuma North, as expressed by them on December 7, 2024, is upheld.
Therefore, we have caused our legal directorate to challenge the directive in court. We shall file in court and challenge the whimsical, capricious directive by the EC”, he added.
