The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin has officially declared four parliamentary seats vacant with barely two months to the election in December.
This ruling means that Ghana's hung parliament which gave the governing New Patriotic Party a slight upper hand as the Majority side with the support of an Independent Member of Parliament, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, will now tilt towards the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The NDC will now have 136 MPs in the house, while the NPP will have 135.
Before this, the NPP had 138 whereas the NDC had 137.