The Member of Parliament for Ellembele, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah says the house must urgently summon the Electoral Commission over the outcome of the December 7 polls.
He insists the Commission must be present in the house to among other things explain why persons in the yet-to-be created Guan constituency have been disenfranchised with regards to the parliamentary elections.
“It is now clear that the Electoral Commission on the 6th of December wrote the letter to the people of Guan that they could only vote in the presidential election and that because they had outstanding issues about who should be cleared, they cannot vote in the parliamentary election.
“I thought that was really an affront to our constitution. A pointed question was asked on this issue and the Electoral Commission failed to answer so they deceived Parliament. This Parliament, before we rise, must invite the Electoral Commission and ask the Electoral Commission serious questions.”
The EC announced on Monday, December 7, 2020, that eligible voters in the Guan District would not be able to elect a representative for Parliament pending the creation of their constituency.
The areas within the newly created Guan District are Santrofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi.
The people of Lolobi and Akpafu have petitioned the EC on the matter and are still awaiting a response.
In a recent letter to the EC, they said the Commission had “taken our guaranteed rights away from us, thus unlawfully shutting the door on us.”
Among the questions they asked was “under which Constituency was the Presidential election votes of Lolobi and Akpafu collated?”
They had wished to be part of the Hohoe district during the creation of new regions but did not get their wish.
The development has triggered calls for the EC to create the Guan constituency.