NDC wins Sene West constituency seat by 16 votes

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The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has won the disputed Sene West Parliamentary seat.

Its candidate, Kwesi Ampofo Twumasi polled 13,116 while the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate got 13,100 of the total votes cast.

This was after the Wenchi High Court gave the go ahead for the the content in the disputed ballot box at the Tattor Battor Polling Station, which was snatched by one Christian Nukpeta and retrieved later, to be counted.

After counting, the NDC polled 275, NPP -148 and the National Democratic Party represented by Caesar Fomekah polled 1 vote. A total of 47 votes were rejected.

The counting was supervised by the EC officials in the company of Dan Kwaku Botwe of the NPP and NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia among others.

This slim margin of 16 votes brings the Parliamentary seats to 137 apiece with the NPP-biased independent candidate making up a full House.

Meanwhile, there is heavy security presence at the Bono East Regional Police Command where the exercise was undertaken.

The EC is yet to make an official declaration of the results.