New Patriotic Party (NPP) executives in the Ahafo Ano South-West constituency of the Ashanti Region have debunked claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of winning the 2024 parliamentary election in the area.
The NDC won the presidential election in the constituency, but the parliamentary polls were declared in favor of Elvis Osei Mensah Dapaah, who won with a 658-vote difference.
However, a demonstration was staged by the women’s wing of the NDC, demanding the declaration of results from 11 polling stations at the district office of the Electoral Commission.
The NDC women organizer in the area, Adwoa Owusuaa, contends that if the results from the eleven polling stations were added, their candidate Sadik Abubakar would win the parliamentary seat.
At a press conference to respond to the concerns, the NPP executives insisted that the NDC’s Sadik Abubakar lost the parliamentary seat.
“There was skirt-blouse voting in the just-ended presidential and parliamentary elections in the Ahafo Ano South-West constituency,” they said. “We are using this medium to inform Ghanaians that Elvis Osei Mensah Dapaah won the Ahafo Ano South-West parliamentary seat with 16,058 votes, against Sadik Abubakar of the NDC, who gained 15,373 votes.”
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