Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Ablekuma North Constituency, has apologized profusely to the party’s National Council for disobeying its order to abstain from the recent parliamentary rerun in 19 polling places.
Akua Afriyie admitted her mistake and reaffirmed her commitment to the party following a National Council meeting on Monday, July 14, to discuss planning for the party’s next annual delegates conference.
“All boils down to an apology, because that is my party and I will keep being NPP. We all make mistakes. If the party says you shouldn’t run, whatever it is, the matter has been resolved, an apology given, and we move on,” she stated.
She apologized after choosing to take part in the parliamentary rerun on Friday, July 11, 2025, in defiance of a formal party order to abstain.
The Electoral Commission (EC) decided to hold a rerun, but the NPP refused, claiming their candidate had already won the legislative election in December 2024.
During a press conference on Tuesday, July 8, NPP General Secretary Justin Kodua Frimpong charged that the EC’s call for a rerun was an act of disobedience to popular will.
He maintained that poll officials and EC officials had verified all of the results and that Akua Afriyie, the party’s candidate, had legitimately won the first contest.
However, anomalies in the collation process—specifically, the lack of validation signatures from some Presiding Officers on the scanned pink sheets from the impacted polling stations—were used by the Electoral Commission to support the rerun.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s Ewurabena Aubynn narrowly defeated Akua Afriyie, who ran despite the NPP’s boycott order. Aubynn received 34,090 votes to Afriyie’s 33,881 votes, giving the NDC a historic victory in the constituency.