The Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Tanko Rashid Computer, has claimed that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), Jean Mensa, was misinformed about the extent of the situation regarding the outstanding Ablekuma North parliamentary election results.

Speaking in an interview on JoyNews, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, Computer claimed that Jean Mensa had all along thought that only 3 polling station results out of the 37, which were in contention, had not been authenticated because of the briefing she received from her subordinates.

He indicated that it was after the EC told Parliament that only 3 polling station results had not been authenticated by parties in the election that she got to know that, that assertion was wrong.

“Madam Jean Mensa was not properly briefed by her lieutenants. Because all along, she believed that it was left with three (results). Not knowing that at the time she is talking, the 11th June, we had crossed that path. The authentication was done for only 18 polling stations out of the 37. She didn't know this.

“It was at our meeting that we now brought it up and told them that 'look, this thing you are talking of — you authenticated and left with 3 — is not true.' Only 18 were authenticated. The presiding officers who came to authenticate were only 18," he said.

He further pointed out that the remaining 19 polling station results could not be authenticated because the presiding officers who were supposed to have issued them denied the scanned copies of the pink sheets presented by the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

“The rest who came there had problems and ran away and said they cannot authenticate this 19. That's why the resolution came. At that time, Dr Bossman had already committed himself in Parliament without telling the boss about this story,” he said.

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