All the problems with this failed state called Ghana can be found in this one tiny report – the politicization of everything under this sun.
The Electoral Commission, which in the past at least maintained a veneer of neutrality, has now been turned into another fighting ground for our two main aimless, mindless and power drunk political parties – the NDC and the NPP.
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.
Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, CPP’s presidential candidate in the just ended December polls has in an interview with Ghana Web thrown lights on the reason behind the party’s lost in the 7th December polls.
According to him, the filing fee the EC charged was way too much and it adversely affected the party since enough was not left for campaigns and other paramount stuff.
Malik Kweku Baako, Editor in Chief of the New Crusading Guide has heaped praises on the electoral commission for its commendable job in the just ended general polls.
The Electoral Commission Friday declared Nana Akufo-Addo as the newly elected President of Ghana after an untypical delay in the release of the December 7 election results.
APC flagbearer Hassan Ayariga won a significant legal victory earlier today (Friday), when an Accra High Court ruled that he should be reinstated in the race for the Presidency.
Ayariga, like most of the other candidates disqualified by the EC, took his case to court to seek a quashing of the EC’s decision, and that’s exactly what he got.
Hassan Ayariga has been accused by the Electoral Commission of holding a fake doctorate degree – something that’s not really that uncommon in Ghana – but a furious Ayariga has threatened to sue in return.
The disqualified APC flagbearer responded to the Commission’s claims in a radio interview earlier today, and he made a challenge during the interview that we thought was interesting, so decided to take him up on.
The Progressive People’s Party continue to battle the EC concerning their disqualification from contesting in the 2016 polls.
Flagbearer Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom was one of 12 aspirants disqualified from contesting for various administrative errors on their filing documents.
Whatever the opposition party is on must really be high. I cannot fathom what exactly is wrong with them. For a party which does not have its household together—fighting amongst party members — keeping mute and solving such paramount issues should be a topmost priority, but it looks like only a few people have seen the darkened cloud on this political party.
It certainly looks like the opposition party has an unknown feud with the Electoral Commission (EC), the EC Chairperson so to say. We all witnessed the scathing utterances meted out to the said Chairman by the honourable Minister for Assin Central Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. Obviously this man has been an inadvertent pacesetter.
