Valerie Sawyerr urges EC to rerun Ablekuma North polls

Presidential Advisor on Governmental Affairs, Dr. Valerie Esther Sawyerr, is calling on the Electoral Commission (EC) to rerun elections at 62 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency, citing serious concerns over the legitimacy of the vote collation process.

In a statement titled “The Saga of the Scanned Pink Sheets & Ablekuma North,” Dr. Sawyerr claimed that results from these stations were compromised due to the destruction of original carbonated pink sheets—the official forms used to verify polling outcomes.

She alleged that only 219 of the 281 polling stations had results collated using the original pink sheets, leaving 62 stations without properly validated results.

Dr. Sawyerr criticized the EC for later accepting scanned copies of pink sheets submitted by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), despite earlier rejections by the EC’s Director of Elections, Dr. Benjamin Bannor Bio. She questioned the authority of the EC’s Director of Training, Dr. Sereboe Quaicoe, who reversed the decision, calling it irregular and unjustified.

“On what authority does a Director for Training overturn the decision of a Director of Elections?” she asked.

The EC reportedly brought in 17 presiding officers to authenticate the scanned sheets, but Dr. Sawyerr claims many failed to verify the documents’ authenticity. She further accused the EC of misleading the public, calling the assertion that all parties agreed to use scanned pink sheets a “bold-faced lie.”

She concluded by urging the EC to uphold democratic values and rerun the elections in the affected areas.

“No ground stomping, no walks from Timbuktu to Accra will make what is wrong right… I am for peace… Shalom,” she wrote.