Presidential Advisor for Governmental Affairs, Dr Valerie Esther Sawyerr, is calling on the Electoral Commission Chairperson, , to order a rerun of elections at 62 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency, citing concerns over irregularities in the collation process.
According to a report by citinewsroom.com, Dr Sawyerr made this demand in a strongly-worded public statement released on Wednesday, June 11.
The statement, titled "The Saga of the Scanned Pink Sheets and Ablekuma North," described what she called a "diabolic drama" involving the Electoral Commission's alleged reliance on scanned pink sheets submitted by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the absence of original carbonated forms. "No ground stomping, no walks from Timbuktu to Accra… will make what is wrong… right," Dr Sawyerr wrote, stressing that the only fair solution is to "order a rerun at the sixty-two (62) polling stations… and stop wasting our time." The controversy stems from violent incidents during the December 7, 2024, general elections, which reportedly led to the destruction of original carbonated pink sheets at the Ablekuma North collation centre.
Dr Sawyerr explained that while results from 219 of the 281 polling stations were properly collated, the remaining 62 were left without validated forms.
