The Minister of Local Government, Decentralization, and Rural Development, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, has been declared the winner of the 2024 parliamentary election for the Techiman South Constituency in the Bono Region.
The Techiman South Constituency was one of the nine constituencies whose results were outstanding.
According to the Electoral Commission, the returning officer for the constituency was assaulted and forced to declare the results in favour of the National Democratic Congress candidate, Christopher Beyere Baasongti.
The Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, had stated that the declaration for the constituency could not stand and ordered a re-collation of the results. "The returning officer and other staff were physically assaulted and forced to re-declare the results at gunpoint.