Christopher Beyere Baasongti,
the NDC’s parliamentary candidate for Techiman South is challenging the
parliamentary results of his constituency which the Electoral
Commission (EC) declared in favour of Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, the New
Patriotic Party’s candidate.
In that regard, Christopher
Beyere Baasongti has sued Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah who now sits in
Parliament, the Electoral Commission, and the Clerk to Parliament.
In a suit filed at the High
Court in Wenchi, Beyere Baasongti wants the declaration of Martin Adjei-Mensah
Korsah as the winner of the parliamentary elections to be quashed.
He also wants the Court to
compel the Electoral Commission to collate the polling station
results in the constituency in the presence of the representatives of the
candidates.
Christopher Beyere Baasongti is
further praying that the High Court will order the EC to declare him the winner
of the 2020 parliamentary election in the constituency.
He averred in his suit that
there was no collation of the results of the parliamentary election for the
Techiman South constituency and, therefore, no declaration of results could
have been made on the 8th of December 2020 as is purported to have been done.
“That on the evening of 9th
December 2020 when the Chairperson of the 2nd Responded publicly
declared Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner of the
presidential election in Ghana, she confirmed that the results of the elections
at the Techiman South Constituency had by then still not been collated,” the
NDC candidate averred.
“That up-to-date of the filling of the instant election
petition, neither the Petitioner nor any of his representatives have been
invited by the 2nd Respondent or its agents for the collation of the
parliamentary results of the Techiman South constituency,” Christopher Beyere
Baasongti explained.
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