Zakaria challenges Mion NDC primary results
One of the aspirants in the just ended Mion Constituency NDC Parliamentary elections, Dr Mu-awia Mohammed Zakaria, has challenged the outcome of the elections
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Mr Mohammed Abdul-Aziz polled 1,652 as against Dr Zakaria’s 1,639 votes. But Dr Zakaria claims he suspect foul play and would not accept the results until all outstanding issues were resolved.
The Mion constituency parliamentary seat is currently occupied by Dr Alhassan Ahmed Yakubu, a Deputy Minister of the Food and Agriculture. He lost the elections as he obtained 1,345 votes.
Other contestants Mr Alhassan Adam had 355, Mr Abdul Jalil Bawa, 1,234, Mr Munkaila King Zakaria got 369 and Mr Prince Ibrahim Tanko obtained 362.
In a press statement issued in Tamale and signed by Dr Mu-awia Mohammed Zakaria, he said, “I will like to put on record that the results is being challenged due to the addition of results from pink sheets considered doctored or compromised”.
“Until all outstanding issues are addressed, the results remain disputed”, he said. Dr Zakaria therefore appealed to Mion constituents and his supporters across the country to remain calm until the process was complete saying, “I am convinced that I won the elections and no amount of propaganda can change the results”.
“We will like to use this opportunity to call on our teeming supporters to remain calm since we are deploying all legal means at our disposal to ensure that the will of the people of Mion is not compromised”, he stressed.
The NDC Northern Regional Director of Elections, Mr Rashid Tanko Computer, in an interview with the Graphic Online said per the results the party received from the Mion constituency and declared by the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr Mohammed Abdul-Aziz remains the party’s newly elected Parliamentary candidate.
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He said if there were outstanding issues in Mion they were yet to be made known to the Regional Secretariat of the party and assured that all problems related to the elections would be resolved to maintain peace and unity for victory in 2016.