Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has declared that parliamentary candidates whose results were annulled by the Supreme Court on Friday, 27 December 2024, are not eligible to be sworn in as Members of Parliament on 6 January 2025.
He emphasised that the Supreme Court’s decision rendered their declarations invalid and unlawful.
The Supreme Court nullified the re-collated results for the Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central, and Techiman South constituencies, citing irregularities in the Electoral Commission’s re-collation process.
The apex court ruled that the procedure did not meet the required standards of transparency and fairness.
This ruling followed a legal challenge by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against a directive issued by the High Court on 20 December, which instructed the Electoral Commission (EC) to re-collate results in nine disputed constituencies.
The NDC argued that the directive was procedurally flawed and lacked a sound legal basis.