NPP parliamentary candidate in Ablekuma North files a lawsuit against the EC to prevent a rerun in 19 polling places.
Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, the parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma North in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has filed a lawsuit to overturn the Electoral Commission’s (EC) decision to hold new parliamentary elections in 19 polling places in the constituency.
Recall that the Electoral Commission declared in a statement dated July 2 that it would rerun the contested polling places on Friday, July 11, 2025. The action comes more than seven months after the general election in 2024 and is part of an attempt to end the constituency’s protracted electoral deadlock.
Since then, though, the NPP has criticized the ruling, calling it an electoral procedural infraction
Through her attorney Gary Nimako, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie filed a lawsuit at the Accra High Court on Monday, July 7, 2025, contesting the legality and justification of the rerun. The lawsuit claims that the EC’s ruling violates her rights and is “arbitrary and unreasonable.”
A High Court order dated January 4, 2025, which instructed the EC to finish the collation process, is cited in the lawsuit. The order stated that only three polling places needed to be tallied in order to determine the outcome of the parliamentary election.
For this reason, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie is asking the court for the following reliefs:
The High Court’s express and pending orders dated 4 January 2025, which directed the Respondent to compile and announce the winner of the Parliamentary Election in the Ablekuma North Constituency, were violated by the Respondent’s decision to rerun the election in 19 of the 281 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency on July 11, 2025.
A ruling that the Respondent’s decision to hold a new parliamentary election in 19 of the 281 polling places in the Ablekuma North Constituency is an unlawful, irrational, and capricious use of discretion.
This Honorable Court’s Order of Certiorari rescinds the Respondent’s decision in the letter dated July 1, 2025, which was also reaffirmed in the press release
