{"id":9334,"date":"2024-12-21T18:57:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2024-12-21T18:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:57:50","slug":"ebi-bright-no-longer-mp-elect-for-tema-central-npps-charles-forson-declared-winner-after-recollation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9334","title":{"rendered":"Ebi Bright no longer MP-elect for Tema Central; NPP\u2019s Charles Forson declared winner after recollation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Charles Forson of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been officially declared the winner of the Tema Central parliamentary seat following a recollation of the results.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The declaration came after a brief pause in the recollation process, triggered by the absence of representatives from all political parties, which led the Returning Officer to temporarily halt proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tensions had risen earlier when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, Ebi Bright, demanded a full re-collation of votes from all polling stations, as stipulated by a court order. She called for the process to start from scratch, rather than continuing from the point it had previously stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-61d5cd8fb39e694c1820034ec7608d8d ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-WzKpUc3-Q?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bright, accompanied by South Dayi MP Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, voiced their dissatisfaction with the Electoral Commission\u2019s decision not to fully recollate the votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disagreement culminated in NDC representatives storming out of the collation center in protest, leading to the temporary suspension of the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the dispute, Forson\u2019s victory was eventually confirmed after the process resumed, bringing clarity to the final result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Forson of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been officially declared the winner of the Tema Central parliamentary seat following a recollation of the results. The declaration came after a brief pause in the recollation process, triggered by the absence of representatives from all political parties, which led the Returning Officer to temporarily halt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[1968,1713,3038],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-national-democratic-congress-2","tag-new-patriotic-party-2","tag-charles-forson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9336,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions\/9336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}