11th December 2024 1:29:55 PM
2 mins readJoyce Bawah Mogtari, spokesperson for John Dramani Mahama, has requested that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, to resign from her position.
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In a conversation with Channel One Television, Mogtari expressed disappointment that Mensa had not resigned following the conclusion of the 2024 general elections.
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She condemned the leadership of the Electoral Commission, accusing Mensa of partisanship, compromising integrity, and fostering a lack of credibility.
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"I was thinking that the EC chairperson was going to resign yesterday. Look, my brother, they’ve been incompetent, to say the least. There’s been too many partisans there, the arm twisting. When the will of the people is up against you, there is nothing you can do.
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“One of the reasons we have these pockets of violence is because it took too long for the EC to declare the results. They counted the presidential, and by the time we all went to bed, we knew, the main vanquish had actually thrown in the towel. What were they [EC] waiting for?
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"Look at the cost of the ballot sheets that have been destroyed, burnt because of mistakes; elementary mistakes. Thank God for our technical team, they did a yeoman's job to put the EC in check,” she stated.
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When asked whether the Electoral Commission Chairperson should step down, Joyce Bawah Mogtari answered affirmatively, reiterating her call for Jean Mensa's resignation.
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"I think that she should have. In her place, I would have [resigned]. Like she said, it is finished. It should be finished for her [Jean] as well," she said.
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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) secured a decisive victory in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Joyce Bawah Mogtari voiced her expectation that reforms at the Electoral Commission, including the removal of the chairperson, will be a key focus in the constitutional amendments that the incoming government plans to implement.
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“If there were elementary breaches, then she has no business being there, if you ask me. I personally think, from a very professional perspective, that everything to do with the EC needs a complete reform and hopefully it will form part of the constitutional amendment process John Mahama will undertake.
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“We ought to reset the EC and delete all the partisans who are in there. And she [Jean] herself has displayed enormous prejudice and bias towards the NDC. She should go, and I think she ought to respect herself and leave,” she added.
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