The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has strongly criticized the Electoral Commission’s (EC) leadership, propounding that the current team is incapable of managing credible elections.
Asiedu Nketia demands the removal of EC Chairperson Jean Mensa and the entire top leadership, citing their handling of recent electoral issues as evidence of institutional failure.
“There has to be a change… The three top leadership must all go. They have managed the commission so badly,” he said. Asiedu Nketia pointed to the unresolved Ablekuma North parliamentary election and the disenfranchisement of the SALL constituency in the 2020 general elections as examples of the EC’s poor performance.
“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.
Asiedu Nketia emphasized the need for fundamental restructuring of the EC to meet its constitutional mandate.
“Resetting the EC means bringing it back to an institution that is fit for purpose. The way it is existing now, it is not fit for purpose.”
He concluded with a scathing critique of the current administration’s support for the EC’s leadership.
“If in any serious country we want to maintain this type of Electoral Commission, then I don’t know what the country is about.
Story By: Kwame Lawerh
