Joshua Alabi, the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Greater Accra Regional Director of Elections, has reaffirmed the party’s pledge to maintain security and tranquility during the next parliamentary rerun in Ablekuma North.
His reassurance follows disturbances to the collation process during the constituency’s general elections in 2024, which raised public fears about possible security failures.
On Wednesday, July 9, in an exclusive interview with Channel One Newsroom, Mr. Alabi said he was certain that the Electoral Commission (EC) and security forces will be ready to carry out a seamless and incident-free repeat at the 19 impacted polling places.
He emphasized that, from what he has seen, the security situation is far better organized than it was previously:
“There were security lapses in the last elections. The EC itself also failed to live up to its bidding in the last elections, but I believe they have done its homework. The security has also done their homework very well, so this time around, the tags we are going to use will have our names on them, which is one of the means too.
I am very much convinced that with the few I have seen on the ground, I don’t think we are going to have the lapses we experienced the last time. If we are able to be on the ground ourselves, we are part of the security, nothing untoward is going to happen, and it is only 19 polling stations. I don’t foresee any challenge. If there is one, the security will take care of them.”
