The Electoral Commission has once again suspended the final declaration of the Dome-Kwabenya parliamentary results after a third attempt.

This morning, the EC attempted to collate results from three polling stations but succeeded in collating only two. The third polling station’s results remain unresolved due to persistent challenges.

This was after the collation took a dramatic turn as disagreements between political parties and the EC threatened to derail the process.

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At the heart of the contention were conflicting claims over the number of polling stations requiring re-collation and the validity of earlier declarations.

The dispute began when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate, Mike Oquaye Jnr, raised objections to the ongoing collation process, JoyNews' James Avedzi reported.

According to the MP aspirant, there were discrepancies regarding the number of polling stations left to be collated before the chaos that marred the earlier process.

“In the dying hours of the collation in the constituency, just before the chaos erupted, there were 88 polling stations left to be collated,” the reporter said.

He said Mr Oquaye argued that the NPP was not present for the collation of 85 out of these 88 polling stations, which, according to him, invalidated the subsequent declaration made in their absence.

This objection was met with resistance from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which maintained that only three polling stations were outstanding.

The NDC insisted that the process should focus solely on these three polling stations and that the rest of the results were valid as declared.

In the end, the EC suspended the declaration over the outstanding polling station - the Abokobi Women’s Development Centre 2 polling station.