{"id":171376,"date":"2024-04-14T07:48:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/14\/mahama-attacks-electoral-commission-again\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T07:48:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:48:23","slug":"mahama-attacks-electoral-commission-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/14\/mahama-attacks-electoral-commission-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Attacks Electoral Commission Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama who is seeking a second chance to become the President of Ghana has attacked the Electoral Commission by accusing the officers as recuitors by the current Akufo-Addo-led government of working in their bid.<br \/>He also painted a dim picture of the EC\u2019s management of the 2020 election and said law-enforcement officials were unwilling to respond to complaints by the National Democratic Congress about flaws in the voting.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Mahama, \u201cWe\u2019ve had an electoral commission that has been a model for the whole of Africa because of the innovations that we have introduced at every stage of the way \u2026 And because of that, it has created some of the best electoral processes that Africa has\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed \u201cUnfortunately, you get a government that comes in that appoints people who have a known partisan record on to the Commission. You as much as possible want to appoint people who are credible, who are respected, who everybody knows would be neutral. But this is a government that has a record of appointing NPP people to the Electoral Commission\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The former President said this when speaking at the London School of Economics with Parselelo Kantai, the Nairobi-based politics\/society editor of the Royal African Society\u2019s African Arguments platform, and Nana Yaa Mensah of Asaase radio recently.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed \u201cIndeed \u2026 sometimes it falls out of their own mouths. One of the commissioners said that our party [the National Democratic Congress] is the biggest existential threat to democracy in Ghana. And he\u2019s a member of the Commission! We know that he was a patron of the NPP student movement on campus\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented \u201cThere\u2019s even another one who was part of the manifesto writing committee of the NPP. When you have people like that being appointed to the Commission, then you begin to wonder: \u2018Should we change the mode of appointment of these people? Should the appointment be taken away from the president and given to some other, independent body?\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The running of an election] a very complicated process and it needs a lot of stakeholder engagement; it needs level heads \u2013 level-headedness \u2013 to be able to encourage the EC to do its work so that we all are satisfied with the integrity of the election\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahama added \u201cRecently there was an announcement of recruitment of returning officers, and the information we have is that ministers and DCEs [district chief executives] and others were asked to write the names of party apparatchiki and present them so that they would be appointed as the returning officers. Are these people going to be neutral?\u201d,.<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201cThese are things that beginning to [hobble] us,\u201d Mahama said of the perceived EC bias. \u201cAnd I think that Ghana has the shock absorbers to be able to go through these processes and debate the necessary reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>-BY Daniel Bampoe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Former President John Dramani Mahama who is seeking a second chance to become the President of Ghana has attacked the Electoral Commission by accusing the officers as recuitors by the current Akufo-Addo-led government of working in their bid.He also painted a dim picture of the EC\u2019s management of the 2020 election and said law-enforcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahama Attacks Electoral Commission Again! 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