Joyce Bawah Mogtari, the special aide to President-Elect John Dramani Mahama, says she expects the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, to resign.
Madam Mogtari says the current Commission, which is heavily partisan, needs a complete reset to restore integrity and credibility.
Speaking to the press , Joyce Bawah Mogtari said the violence recorded in the just-ended 2024 election which was won decisively by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is to be blamed squarely on the Commission’s delay in releasing official resu
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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. 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.
Asked if the EC chair should resign, Joyce said: “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 the John Mahama administration will prioritize comprehensive reforms at the Electoral Commission.
“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” John Mahama will undertake, she added.
Speaking on Tuesday, December 10, she said “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.
