Famed ‘Citizen Vigilante’, Martin Amidu, has waded into the chaos enveloping the Electoral Commission, and he’s pointing blame at both the Chair and the former NDC government.
In his now familiar mode of a lengthy editorial, Amidu said Mrs Osei was incompetent and should never have been appointed by the NDC in the first place.
The Electoral Commission Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, thinks her position makes her a God who cannot be challenged, according to former APC flagbearer Hassan Ayariga.
The politician, who had a run-in with the EC boss before last year’s elections with the disqualification of his party, has resurfaced to criticise Osei since the recent brouhaha at the EC started.
The office of the President has announced that the petition received which calls for the removal of the EC boss Charlotte Osei has been forwarded to the Chief Justice.
A group of petitioners working at the Commission petitioned the President for Mrs Osei’s removal, citing mismanagement and corruption.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Hon Kennedy Agyepong, has called for the arrest of Charlotte Osei and two deputy EC commissioners.
Agyepong says the beleaguered EC boss is ‘corrupt’ and is attempting to sabotage the country and thus must lose her job as well as be arrested.
For the past days, Hassan Ayariga has been acting like Afia Schwarzenegger hearing about the Tonardo versus Delay rift.
Charlotte Osei is facing threats to be impeached as E.C Boss over some alleged constitutional wrong doings and 2016 disqualified APC flag bearer has strongly been supporting the agenda.
The integrity of Ghana’s Electoral Commission in the past few days has been a subject of discussion.
With a petition seeking to impeach its Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, over wrong doings, she has also named some of her Deputies for being corrupt and it’s extending to be a legal challenge.
Disqualified 2016 APC Presidential Candidate, Hassan Ayariga says he is in support of the agenda to impeach Charlotte Osei.
Speaking on Okay Fm, he said he has no personal ill feelings towards Charlotte Osei but the E.C Boss is very disrespectful.
Former deputy Tourism Minister, Dzifa Gomashie, has entreated the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to protect the EC boss from those calling for her head.
In an open letter to the President on social media, Gomashie notes that it’s difficult enough for women to get into powerful positions and therefore those in there need to be protected.
Workers at the Electoral Commission have petitioned the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to remove the Commission’s Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, out of her position.
The workers say the Commissioner, who was appointed by the former President Mahama, has mismanaged the body and thus has to be removed from office.
Ghana’s Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Charlotte Osei, has been nominated for the prestigious 2017 Chatham House Prize Award.
Mrs Osei has been nominated for her astute leadership which led to a peaceful and transparent electoral process in Ghana last year.
International Women’s Day falls on 8th March every year and this year’s was truly marked in Ghana, with several prominent women spending the day in the public eye to show how far any woman can go.
To mark the day, a special event was held, spearheaded by the first and second ladies of the land, to celebrate the landmark day.
Some Ghanaians can complain all they want about second lady Samira Bawumia’s dressing to the Independence Day parade and call it ‘un-Islamic’ or whatever, that’s their opinion. In ours, it was a classy attire beautifully worn by a classy woman.
And that wasn’t the first, nor would it be the last time, we see Samira slaying in the public eye. Her combination of beauty, grace, poise and intellect means she would be front and centre in the public eye for at least the next four years.
E.C Chair, Charlotte Osei has once again surfaced in the news and this time it’s not about elections but dishing out some “major keys” to her success so far as EC Boss amidst all the criticisms.
Charlotte Osei added to her reputation, a cherished resilience and diligence she exhibited before, during and after the fiercely contested 2016 general elections.
The self proclaimed queen of Gh comedy, Valentina Agyeiwaa Abrokwa, aka Afia Schwarzenegger, has attacked the Marwako restaurant, it’s Lebanese supervisor who assaulted a Ghanaian female employee, as well as its Ghanaian PRO.
Afia, in a video message posted on social media marking International Women’s Day, took time off celebrating the prominent women in Ghana to come to the defence of the hapless Evelun Boakye, whose face was allegedly dipped in pepper by Jihad Chaabn, her supervisor at the Fast Food joint.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo delivered his 1st State Of The Nation Address today in an august ceremony graced by all high profile political protocols Ghana has but certainly without the immediate past President.
In detail Ex-President John Rawlings and John Kuffour were present but John Mahama was missing though his vice K.B Amissah Arthur was present.
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The last time we saw the honest Statesman was in Gambia with Nana Addo during the inauguration of Adama Barrow which we believe he has been back to Ghana because a check on his social media platforms proves so.
