New Patriotic Party (NPP) Deputy General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahen has stated that he will never trust the country’s Electoral Commissioners.
He believes the recent allegations and counter allegations emanating from the Chairperson of the EC and her two deputies have entrenched the party’s mistrust for the Commission over the years.
He accused the EC chair, Madam Charllote Osei and her two deputies of skewing the 2016 elections in favour of the opposition National Democratic Congress adding that the NPP did not deserve the 5,716,609 of total votes cast in the 2016 elections, representing 53.84%.
“I will never trust Charlotte Osei and her two deputies. They don’t deserve to be occupying that position because allegations of corruption are not mere allegations and needs to be taking seriously.
“In fact, I am tempted to believe that the votes obtained by Akufo Addo and the NPP is not even true. He should have gotten more than what we were told and saw”, he noted.
EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei and her deputies, Georgina Opoku-Amankwah in charge of Corporate Services together with Amadu Sulley who is also in charge of Operations at the Commission are expected to appear before a five-member Committee chaired by a Supreme Court Justice regarding separate petitions filed against them.
It could be recalled the EC Commissioners came under intense criticisms after the infighting between them in the corruption scandal against them.
Commenting on the issue on Asempa FM’s Ekosi Sen Monday, Lawyer Obiri Boahen said he believes though the summoning of the Commissioners is in the right direction, it “behoves on them to step aside for investigations into the allegations”.
According to him, the Commissioners have brought the image of the EC into disrepute and so their stay in office will only worsen the situation.
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Source: Adomonline.com/Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy
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