Sarah Adwoa Safo, MP for Dome Kwabenya has revealed how her constituency bravely fought for electoral reforms with an election petition in 2012 during the general elections.

She said with the help of her constituents, they “made a very positive impact in the electoral process of the country.”

“That led to the electoral reforms that we see today,” she told Kojo Yankson, the host of the Super Morning Show, Tuesday.

In 2012, after votes were cast to elect a President in the 2012 general elections and members of parliament for 275 constituencies, the opposition at the time, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) alleged that the Electoral Commission (EC) had tampered with the results. 

The opposition then filed a petition at the Supreme Court to review the results. 

“As you remember I won as a parliamentary candidate but from my private coalition room, the figures that I was getting from the EC at the time in my district compared to what I had wasn’t tallying,” she disclosed.

“So there was a bit of agitation. We wanted a recount of our presidential candidate’s election and we all know what came out of it.”

“We were brave, we were courageous at the time. We counted the president’s votes in the ballot box. We counted it nine solid times. And every time there was a discovery that we made. So that is what led us to the Supreme Court for eight months,” the lawyer explained.

“We went there and we weren’t successful in the election petition but at least there were some electoral reforms that came out of the ruling of the Supreme Court.”

"After that, the party constituted an electoral reform committee that came out with proposals for the EC to follow through. So that we can have free fair transparent elections and so we are proud of that as a constituency."

She also added that she is proud to have been the only woman serving on the electoral reform committee.