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Ablekuma-North: Presiding Officer lays down his tools, re-collation suspended  
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Ablekuma-North: Presiding Officer lays down his tools, re-collation suspended  

Mr Vincent Obeng, the Presiding Officer for the Ablekuma-North Constituency, says he cannot continue with the re-collation of the disputed parliamentary results due to "frustration" and chaos that has characterised the exercise.  The EC on Wednesday suspended the re-collation exercise for Ablekuma-North for the fifth consecutive time after hours of altercation over the validity of the statement of results sheets for the collation.   The results for three polling stations are outstanding.   The EC cannot declare the results unless the remaining three are verified and added to the tabulated results.  The Commission said it would communicate its next line of action in due course.  The EC has been relying on the scanned copies of the statement of re...