Hon Isaac Osei, MP for Subin, flanked by other executives addressing party
The members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have called for the re-organization of the current electoral body, which they say has been compromised due to the 2012 elections.
A Deputy Communication Director of the party, Samuel Awuku, who made the call, the new Electoral Commission (EC) would represent all sectors of society, as the Electoral Commission (EC) under Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan looked like a one-man-show bedroom organization.
According to him, the EC ought to have representation from academia, the National House of Chiefs, parliament and other relevant state institutions to make it vibrant, transparent and innovative.
Addressing the party’s supporters in Kumasi at a forum on the theme, “Searching for Electoral Reform in Ghana – role of the NPP,” Mr. Awuku said public education must be made to place Ghanaians at the centre to agitate for electoral reforms to guarantee transparent elections in future.
The forum was organized by the Kumasi Polytechnic branch of Tertiary Education Students Confederation (TESCON) of the NPP as part of its week celebration.
The NPP Deputy Communication Director noted that Ghanaians have reposed hope and confidence in the nine Supreme Court justices to restore the will of the people as they struggle to put body and soul together.
In his view, his party has enough evidence to, as he put it, “break down the axils of the evil empire and turn around the electoral fraud perpetuated on Ghanaians.”
Samuel Awuku called on the NPP to be vigilant in future elections.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Atwima Mponua, Isaac Asiamah said it was the prayer of the NPP that the Supreme Court would declare the party’s flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as winner of the 2012 presidential election.
According to him, this would bring Ghana’s economy back on track since managers of the state had failed woefully with corruption permeating every sector of economy.
The MP said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government within a period of three months spent GH¢8.7 billion to buy cars for nondescript people.
“Every sector of the economy has deteriorated. Ghana’s economy is stumbling and the only antidote to this is for the Supreme Court to turn around the electoral fraud.”
A member of the Let My Votes Count Alliance, Abu Ramadan, said President Mahama was not enthused with the current court case as he sought to portray when his Royal Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II visited him.
According to him, the laws of the country paved way for peace-loving people like Nana Addo not to plunge this country into civil war in view of massive irregularities during the last polls.
From Ernest Kofi Adu, Kumasi