Director of Elections of the National Democrstic Congress, NDC Mr. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has questioned the integrity of the Jean Atukwei Mensah, Bossman Asare led Electoral Commission going into December 7 polls.
In a media encounter in Accra over the week, Mr. Afriyie Ankrah revealed that the EC attempts to rig the elections for the NPP citing the EC’s authoritative and intolerant posture as evidence.
He hinted that, “it is common knowledge that until recently, Ghana’s Electoral Commission was among the most well respected Election Management Bodies in the world under the leadership of Dr. Kwadwo Afari Djan and Mrs. Charlotte Osei”.
However, he said unfortunately, the credibility of the Commission began to decline since President Akufo-Addo supervised the forced removal of Mrs. Charlotte Osei from office and appointed Mrs. Jean Mensa and Dr. Bossman Asare who are both perceived to be sympathizers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
And Madam Jean Adukwei Mensa is also a direct relative of the first lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akuffo-Addo, added NDC Director of Elections, Mr. Afriyie Ankrah.
“…Since their appointment, various actions by Jean Mensa and Bossman Asare confirm that they are not neutral and that they were appointed to do the bidding of President Akufo-Addo and the NPP”, he noted.
The EC Chair in a media engagement last Tuesday dispelled allegations that she is in bed with government and therefore doing government’s bidding.
But the firebrand NDC Director of Elections insists that the EC cannot be trusted in the run up to the polls following deliberate errors the EC committed in the past.
He indicated further that, Madam Jean Mensa’s leadership has created irreparable credibility crises for the Electoral Commission, EC. “….over the past three years, we have had cause to raise concerns on the conduct and posturing of the EC”, he roared.
He added Ghanaians are witnesses to the comedy of errors and convoluted justifications the EC gave for the compilation of a new voters register after the EC itself confirmed that the register was credible for the conduct of the 2019 district level elections.
“The sudden decision of the Electoral Commission to compile a new register was highly suspicious and when it was obvious that it was needless they insisted on expending about $140m of the taxpayer’s money to embark on such a project”, he lamented.
Mr. Afriyie Ankrah also spoke on some credibility crisis that has bedevilled the EC including the mysterious 541 voter’s list, discrepancy in the statement of poll, manual collation of election results ballot paper with duplicate numbers, illegal publication of voters’ data and illegal inclusion of form Eight among others.
In addition, the NDC’s Director of Elections urged all party Symphathizers to be vigilant on the day of elections by using their mobile phones to record anything untoward during the elections to be used as evidences since the EC and the security apparatus can not be trusted.
Source:Nationaltymes.com
