{"id":3967,"date":"2025-01-05T22:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2025-01-05T22:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:32:44","slug":"ndc-loses-two-parliamentary-seats-after-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/ndc-loses-two-parliamentary-seats-after-recount\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Loses Two Parliamentary Seats After Recount"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has lost two parliamentary seats, Okaikwei Central and Tema Central, after a recount of the votes. The Electoral Commission (EC) declared Patrick Yaw Boamah of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) the winner of the Okaikwei Central constituency, while Charles Forson of the NPP was announced the winner of the Tema Central constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"450\" data-id=\"3970\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gistme.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_8225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3970 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 850px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 850\/450;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The recount was ordered by the High Court after the NPP candidates filed a petition challenging the initial results. The court&#8217;s decision was made after it was discovered that the initial results were flawed, leading to the wrong candidates being declared winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDC candidates, Baba Sadiq and Ebi Bright, were initially declared winners, but the recount revealed that they had lost to their NPP counterparts. The NPP candidates had taken to court to challenge the initial results, leading to the recount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDC Loses Two Parliamentary Seats After Recount<\/p>\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has lost two parliamentary seats, Okaikwei Central and Tema Central, after a recount of the votes. The Electoral Commission (EC) declared Patrick Yaw Boamah of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) the winner of the Okaikwei Central constituency, while Charles Forson of the NPP was announced the winner of the Tema Central constituency.<\/p>\n<p>The recount was ordered by the High Court after the NPP candidates filed a petition challenging the initial results. The court&#8217;s decision was made after it was discovered that the initial results were flawed, leading to the wrong candidates being declared winners.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC candidates, Baba Sadiq and Ebi Bright, were initially declared winners, but the recount revealed that they had lost to their NPP counterparts. The NPP candidates had taken to court to challenge the initial results, leading to the recount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}