{"id":1187791,"date":"2022-08-23T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/asiedu-nketias-spiritualists-at-ipac-meeting-claim-false-ec\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:18:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:18:01","slug":"asiedu-nketias-spiritualists-at-ipac-meeting-claim-false-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/asiedu-nketias-spiritualists-at-ipac-meeting-claim-false-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiedu Nketia&#8217;s spiritualists at IPAC meeting claim false &#8211; EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"478\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/27365562.295-Copy-696x478.jpg\"   alt=\"Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa\" title=\"Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected allegations that its Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa, brought spiritualists to an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The supposed spiritualists were to cast out demons at the meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the EC, the claims were made by the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement issued on Monday, August 22, by the Electoral Commission, it described the allegation as untrue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attention of the Electoral Commission has been drawn to a statement made by Mr Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDC, to the effect that the Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs Jean Mensa, brought spiritualists to an IPAC meeting to cast out demons.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-07-14-at-5.23.33-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Asiedu Nketiah\u2019s claim that spiritualists were brought to IPAC meeting is untrue - EC\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032131150\" title=\"Asiedu Nketiah\u2019s claim that spiritualists were brought to IPAC meeting is untrue - EC\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>Johnson Asiedu Nketiah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFor the information of the General Public, this is untrue. It never occurred. IPAC meetings are meant to discuss issues relating to Ghana\u2019s Electoral System. This is exactly what occurs there. IPAC meetings are attended by Political Parties, Civil Society and Development Partners,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission has, thus, challenged Mr Nketia to prove his claims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the full statement<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"591\" height=\"699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-444.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2153345\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"h6V7WJBojoY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Curbing Exams Malpractices: WAEC Prosecuting 13 cases of Exams malpractices - Adom TV News (22-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h6V7WJBojoY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected allegations that its Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa, brought spiritualists to an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting. The supposed spiritualists were to cast out demons at the meeting.\u00a0 According to the EC, the claims were made by the General Secretary of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[8279,2051,3535,16595,458,8283,24079],"class_list":["post-1187791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-asiedu","tag-claim","tag-false","tag-ipac","tag-meeting","tag-nketias","tag-spiritualists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}