“We ought to reset the EC and delete all the partisans in there” – Mahama’s aide

President-elect John Dramani Mahama’s special aide Joyce Bawah Mogtari says she foresee Jean Mensa, the Electoral Commission chairperson, stepping down.

Madam Mogtari claims that in order to regain its integrity and credibility, the very political present Commission must be completely reformed.

Speaking on Channel One Television, Joyce Bawah Mogtari stated that the Commission’s tardiness in announcing the official results is directly responsible for the violence that was witnessed during the just ended 2024 election, which was handily won by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

“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. 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?”

“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.

“I think that she should have, in her place, I would have resigned” when asked if the EC chair should step down. It’s finished, just like she said. It should be finished for Jean as well.

Comprehensive reforms at the Electoral Commission will be a top priority for the John Mahama government, she stated.

“I was thinking that the EC Chairperson was going to resign yesterday. Yes, absolutely… They have been incompetent, to say the least. There are too many partisans there. The arm twisting. When the will of the people is up against you, there is nothing you can do,” Joyce Bawah Mogtari stated. “If there were elementary breaches then she has no business being there, if you ask me and 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” she added, John Mahama will take over.

She stated, “We ought to reset the EC and delete all the partisans who are in there,” during her speech on Tuesday, December 10. She [Jean] has also shown a great deal of prejudice and hatred against the NDC; I believe she should respect herself and leave.

Source: Ghanatodayonline.com