{"id":17964,"date":"2026-10-18T15:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=17964"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:53:40","slug":"advise-ecs-emelia-agbenyo-to-resign-cdd-ghana-to-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=17964","title":{"rendered":"Advise EC\u2019s Emelia Agbenyo to resign \u2013 CDD Ghana to Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has called for the resignation of Electoral Commission (EC) Deputy Chairperson Emelia Afi Agbenyo, urging President John Dramani Mahama to advise her to step down amid concerns over her alleged affiliation with the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p>The call was made by CDD-Ghana\u2019s Programmes Manager, Paul Aborampah Mensah, who argued that allowing concerns over <a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citinewsroom.com\/2026\/10\/advise-ecs-emelia-agbenyo-to-resign-cdd-ghana-to-mahama\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">political<\/span><\/a> affiliations to persist could undermine public confidence in the country\u2019s electoral management system.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Eyewitness <a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citinewsroom.com\/2026\/10\/advise-ecs-emelia-agbenyo-to-resign-cdd-ghana-to-mahama\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">News<\/span><\/a> on Friday, October 16, Mr Mensah said, \u201cwhat we are demanding now is that perhaps the President did not recognise the impact of the appointment he was making. Now that it has been realised publicly, he can advise the lady to resign, or the lady, on moral grounds, can herself resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the need to protect the independence of state institutions, warning against a situation where changes in <a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citinewsroom.com\/2026\/10\/advise-ecs-emelia-agbenyo-to-resign-cdd-ghana-to-mahama\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">government<\/span><\/a> routinely affect the leadership and operations of key national institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want a situation where after every change of government our institutions are affected. That\u2019s what we need to avoid as a country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mensah cautioned that the continued politicisation of electoral management could have serious consequences for Ghana\u2019s democratic processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are not careful and continue that way, it will get to a point that we\u2019ll be sorry for the kind of people who have been managing our elections,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-anno-skip google-anno-sc\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" aria-label=\"Buy Maps\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">Buy Maps<\/div>\n<p>The concerns follow the swearing-in of Mrs Agbenyo and Dr Joseph Kweku Asamoah as Deputy Chairpersons of the Electoral Commission by President Mahama on October 12.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have since been raised about Mrs Agbenyo\u2019s alleged affiliation with the NDC, with critics arguing that it raises concerns about the constitutional requirement for the Commission to operate impartially.<\/p>\n<p>However, at the swearing-in ceremony, President Mahama urged the newly appointed deputy chairpersons to uphold impartiality and protect the right of Ghanaians to freely choose their leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has called for the resignation of Electoral Commission (EC) Deputy Chairperson Emelia Afi Agbenyo, urging President John Dramani Mahama to advise her to step down amid concerns over her alleged affiliation with the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). The call was made by CDD-Ghana\u2019s Programmes Manager, Paul Aborampah Mensah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":17803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17965,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions\/17965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}