{"id":272114,"date":"2024-12-28T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/28\/mps-elect-whose-results-were-quashed-were-not-qualified-to-be-sworn-in-bagbin\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T19:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T19:00:45","slug":"mps-elect-whose-results-were-quashed-were-not-qualified-to-be-sworn-in-bagbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/28\/mps-elect-whose-results-were-quashed-were-not-qualified-to-be-sworn-in-bagbin\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs-elect whose results were quashed were not qualified to be sworn in \u2013 Bagbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has stated that the parliamentary candidates whose results were quashed by the Supreme Court on Friday, December 27, 2024, were not eligible to be sworn in as Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court nullified the re-collated results for the Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central, and Techiman South constituencies, citing irregularities in the process.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling followed a legal challenge by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against a High Court decision from December 20, which directed the Electoral Commission (EC) to re-collate parliamentary election results in nine disputed constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC strongly opposed the High Court\u2019s directive, arguing that the re-collation process was unlawful and lacked merit. The party contended that the court had exceeded its jurisdiction, undermining the transparency and credibility of the electoral process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nDkRh5B9b0\">\n<p>Supreme Court quashes re-collated results for Okaikwei Central, Tema Central, two others<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cSupreme Court quashes re-collated results for Okaikwei Central, Tema Central, two others\u201d \u2014 Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/2024\/12\/supreme-court-quashes-re-collated-results-okaikwei-central-tema-central-two-others\/embed\/#?secret=QNVdrvBjih#?secret=nDkRh5B9b0\" data-secret=\"nDkRh5B9b0\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in parliament in Accra on Saturday, Bagbin said the Supreme Court supported his position on the matter as the declaration of the so-called MPs-elect was unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision of the Supreme Court just followed the position I took before they even delivered their decision. To become a member of parliament, you have to be elected by the voter, and you have to be declared by the electoral commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you have to be sworn in by the speaker. Until you are sworn in by the speaker, you remain MP-elect. So I was very clear in my mind that some of those re-collation and re-declarations were completely null and void.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were unknown to the law and so they were not properly so-called MPs-elect and not qualified to be sworn in by me. My clerk is here. We had those discussions when I told them. They were all surprised. I said, yes. I\u2019m the gatekeeper. The right thing must be done for us to be able to reset Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xCLQY8csUd\">\n<p>EC to rerun election in outstanding polling station in Dome Kwabenya<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cEC to rerun election in outstanding polling station in Dome Kwabenya\u201d \u2014 Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/2024\/12\/ec-to-rerun-election-in-outstanding-polling-station-in-dome-kwabenya\/embed\/#?secret=aYE0n1tHC0#?secret=xCLQY8csUd\" data-secret=\"xCLQY8csUd\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has stated that the parliamentary candidates whose results were quashed by the Supreme Court on Friday, December 27, 2024, were not eligible to be sworn in as Members of Parliament. The Supreme Court nullified the re-collated results for the Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central, and Techiman South constituencies, citing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MPs-elect whose results were quashed were not qualified to be sworn in \u2013 Bagbin - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/28\/mps-elect-whose-results-were-quashed-were-not-qualified-to-be-sworn-in-bagbin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MPs-elect whose results were quashed were not qualified to be sworn in \u2013 Bagbin - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has stated that the parliamentary candidates whose results were quashed by the Supreme Court on Friday, December 27, 2024, were not eligible to be sworn in as Members of Parliament. 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