Dr. Frank Amoakohene is the Ashanti Regional Minister
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Frank Amoakohene, has indicated that his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), will continue to contest the parliamentary election results in the Ahafo Ano North Constituency.
According to him, the parliamentary election results for the constituency were declared without the pink sheets, which had been destroyed.
He stated that the declaration of the results without the pink sheets infuriated NDC supporters, who confronted the female returning officer for the constituency.
It was then that they discovered the returning officer was dating the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the constituency.
The Ashanti Regional Minister explained that the EC officer, running for her life, left behind her phone, which was picked up by an NDC supporter.
After going through the phone, the supporters found details showing that the returning officer was dating the NPP parliamentary candidate.
“For the Ahafo Ano seat, we can’t accept such a result. If we want to agree as a country that the EC can declare results without pink sheets, so be it.
“And again, there was a conflict of interest. The NPP candidate was dating the returning officer. We have evidence of that. During the invasion, she ran away. Unfortunately, she left her phone behind, which was picked up by some of our supporters,” he said in an interview on GHOne TV.
The minister added, “They looked at it, and it was her phone. She didn’t have a password on it. Every chat between her and the NPP candidate is now in our possession.”
About the Ahafo Ano North parliamentary election:
The Ahafo Ano North Constituency was one of the nine constituencies whose parliamentary election results remained outstanding for some time.
NDC’s Adusei Kwasi contested NPP’s Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), for the constituency’s seat.
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), Jean Mensa, explained that the collation of the constituency’s parliamentary election results on election day was disrupted, and no winners were declared.
“The collation on election day was also disrupted, and no winners were declared,” she said, adding that the process was “incomplete, and until it is complete, the Commission will not be in a position to declare a winner,” Jean Mensa stated on December 19, 2024.
The results were subsequently declared in favor of NPP’s Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh after the EC completed the collation of the results at its Greater Accra Regional Office.
Watch the remarks of the Ashanti Regional Minister in the video below (from 27:00):
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