The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has deemed the declaration of certain parliamentary candidates as winners through the Electoral Commission's re-collation exercise in their constituencies as unlawful.
Speaking at an honorary event in Parliament on Saturday, December 28, Bagbin argued that the Supreme Court's decision to nullify the re-collation exercise spared him from the difficult position of swearing in candidates whose victories were improperly declared.
On Friday, December 27, the Supreme Court in Accra annulled the re-collated parliamentary election results for Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central, and Techiman South, reversing the EC's declarations for these constituencies.
The decision was delivered amidst ongoing legal and political disputes over the validity of the re-collation process.