Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has demanded that the whole Electoral Commission (EC) leadership be fired, claiming that the current group is incapable of overseeing legitimate elections in Ghana.
“There has to be a change… The three top leadership must all go. They have managed the commission so badly,” he said.
Asiedu Nketia, in an interview with Joy News on Wednesday, June 25, criticized the Commission’s handling of recent electoral issues, calling the unresolved parliamentary election in Ablekuma North a sign of a more serious institutional breakdown.
“You cannot still be having an election that will go into a stalemate. There is no anticipation of any stalemate in our laws unless people don’t want to do their work well… It’s a clear case of negligence or inability to perform its functions,” he stated.
He pointed to the 2020 general elections, when the SALL constituency was denied the right to vote, as the start of what he sees as a pattern of subpar performance under EC Chairperson Jean Mensa.
“Six months on after the election, and we still don’t have an elected MP. That must tell you something is wrong,” he said.
“This commission, as presently constituted, took over the reins of the Electoral Commission, and they have never done a satisfactory election… First was SALL. A whole constituency went unrepresented for four years. Now, Ablekuma North. And the Ayawaso West by-election? Everything has been messed up,” he added.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
