Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has declared that parliamentary candidates whose re-collated election results were annulled by the Supreme Court are ineligible to be sworn in as Members of Parliament on January 6, 2025.
Addressing Parliament in Accra on Saturday, Bagbin stated, “The 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 declared by the Electoral Commission. But you also have to be sworn in by the Speaker. Until you are sworn in, you remain MP-elect.”
MPs-elect with nullified results
The Supreme Court nullified the re-collated results for the Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Tema Central, and Techiman South constituencies on Friday, December 27, citing irregularities. This ruling overturned a High Court directive from December 20, which had ordered the Electoral Commission to re-collate results in nine disputed constituencies.
Bagbin emphasized that the annulled results were unlawful. “I was very clear in my mind that some of those re-collations and re-declarations were completely null and void. They were unknown to the law, so they were not properly so-called MPs-elect and not qualified to be sworn in by me,” he explained.
He reiterated his commitment to upholding the law and ensuring electoral integrity. “I’m the gatekeeper. The right thing must be done for us to be able to reset Ghana,” Bagbin concluded.
