Hajia Fati Seidu, the defeated NDC parliamentary candidate for Bawku Central in last Thursday's general election, on Tuesday demanded a recount of the ballot. Speaking at a press conference at Bolgatanga, she expressed dissatisfaction about the manner in which the counting of the votes and declaration of results were done.

"I am accordingly demanding that a proper recount of the election results be conducted to determine the true winner" she emphasised. She said the collation of the results was disrupted when violence broke out at the community centre on December 8, adding that her party agents were manhandled and threatened with death by thugs who invaded the collation centre. She said at the time of the disruption, results from 142 polling stations had been collated, which put her ahead with 21,621 against 21,281 by her rival with nine more stations remaining.

"I am confident that results of the nine polling stations would have favoured me, since eight of these came from my strongholds" she insisted.