The opposition National Democratic Congress‘s 2020 presidential nominee, John Dramani Mahama, has stated that the group would use experts and more trained staff to track the 2024 elections at different stages.
Many aspects of the voting procedure, such as the collation of election returns, he believes, need much more experience.
According to the former president, this would enable the party to police and track the elections and ensure that they are free and reasonable.
Mr. Mahama, speaking at the party’s Professional Forum’s annual conference in Accra, urged representatives of the forum to make themselves eligible for the 2024 general elections.
“In terms of policing and election monitoring at the grassroots level, we must ensure that more professionals and educated people are involved. The expertise that you people have in terms of collating the party’s results in a timely manner and also transmitting the results, as most of you do in your professional work with information technology, can assist with this.”
Mr. Mahama has accused the Electoral Commission (EC) and its Chairperson, Madam Jean Adukwei Mensa, of “voter fraud and irregularities” in the 2020 elections.
He lodged an appeal in the Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election results.
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The Supreme Court, on the other hand, sided with the EC and President Akufo-Addo.
Mr. Mahama later expressed his dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s final decision.
Among other items, John Mahama expressed disappointment that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, considering his requests for her to be grilled in court, did not testify.
He claimed that the court’s and the Electoral Commission’s actions helped Jean Mensa avoid “accountability” for her work in the 2020 elections.
“I do not believe the law should be used for partisan purposes. I also believe that the rule of law should imply that there should be one rule that applies to all… The election petition for 2021 will go down in history as the pivotal moment when the EC Chairperson chose to avoid public scrutiny… In this tribunal, all was done to keep the Commission from having to account to the citizens in whose names they held office,” he said.
According to Mahama, Jean Mensa’s refusal to appear in court is a breach of Ghanaians’ confidence in the values of openness and accountability.
“This is a direct stab in the core of Ghana’s sovereign citizens in terms of openness and accountability.”
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
