The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has called for the removal of the entire leadership of the Electoral Commission (EC), led by Chairperson Jean Mensa. Speaking on Joy News on Wednesday, June 25, Asiedu Nketia said, “There has to be a change… The three top leadership must all go. They have managed the commission so badly.”
Asiedu Nketia criticized the EC’s handling of recent electoral matters, citing the unresolved parliamentary election in Ablekuma North and the disenfranchisement of the SALL constituency in the 2020 general elections. “Six months on after the election, and we still don’t have an elected MP. That must tell you something is wrong,” he stated.
He described the EC’s performance as a “clear case of negligence or inability to perform its functions” and called for a fundamental restructuring of the institution. “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 added.
Asiedu Nketia concluded with a strong rebuke, saying, “If in any serious country we want to maintain this type of Electoral Commission, then I don’t know what the country is about.”
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