The Member of Parliament(MP) for Buem constituency in the Oti region, Kofi Adams has declared the intention of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) to resist the swearing-in of some newly-elected MPs.
These people according to him will be the disputed parliamentary seats which were subsequently declared at the Tesano Police Training School.
Mr Adams noted the EC has failed to uphold fairness in the electoral process as he raised concern about the authorization of certain EC directors, who he argued were not returning officers for specific constituencies, to declare parliamentary results.
“Jean Mensa must know that one you’re to execute a mandate, you do that in line with the constitution. Once the results are gazetted and someone has issues, they are to go to court,” he said.
He disclosed this in an interview on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso Nsem, stating that, the law does not mandate the Electoral Commission(EC) to overturn declarations which were made at original collation centres.
“Nobody at the EC has the authority to order a re-collation. It is only in court when these issues of declaration under duress can be proved and not before Jean Mensa or any of the Commissioners.
“They must do what the constitution orders and submit the names from the original declaration to Parliament if not, then on the day of inauguration for the election of a Speaker, we will make sure these people are not sworn in,” he cautioned.
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