Why do the good people of this country; with all our Peace Council, Men and Women of God and people of substance sit unconcerned while Nigerian-born Charlotte Osei is poking the fire that is already sprouting and would eventually destroy everything the good people of Ghana have done in the past 24 years, to give ourselves a workable system of government?
In a typical Chinua Achebe character, we are behaving “like the man sitting at his door-steps with the house ablaze behind and obstinately arguing against the destructive force of fire.”
If The Chronicle is passionate about Mrs Charlotte Osei and her leadership of the EC, it is because we are totally convinced that she would lead all of us astray.
This woman has never got what it takes to organize credible national elections. And she knows it. Haughty beyond any description, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission lacks the competence to shoulder the huge responsibility of conducting the highly volatile 2016 elections.
If you talk to senior people Mrs. Osei has ever worked with, the picture that emerges is that of an arrogant woman throwing her lightweight about, without really exhibiting the stuff she is made of; in terms of the end product.
We cannot be sitting pretty when the Electoral Commission she chairs, is behaving like a bull in a China shop.
When an Accra High Court ruled on Friday that Papa Kwesi Nduom, the founder and leader of the Progressive People’s Party ought to be given the chance to correct whatever errors that the compilers of the nomination forms might have made, the conventional wisdom is that the ruling paved the way for many of the 13 disqualified applicants to re-right the wrongs on their forms as well and would be given the chance to contest the polls..
After all, contesting an election does not guarantee automatic success for the contestants. What it does is that it gives the aggrieved person satisfaction that the state has granted his or her wishes and that the message he or she took to the electorate was not strong or convincing enough for the people to buy into it.
What these disqualifications, especially the manner it is being prosecuted by Mrs. Charlotte Osei and the Electoral Commission, in the Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom affair does, is to gather a ground swell of discontent against the system.
In a circumstance such as this, many of the well-wishers of the disqualified Presidential Candidate(s) could be ready-made materials for rebellion against loyal authority at the slightest case of provocation.
Certainly, this is not the time for the Commission to prove how stubborn it could be by going to the Supreme Court to seek to quash a judgment founded on common sense.
With barely one month to the polls, this is not the time for the Electoral Commission to be litigating.
By this time in 2012, all was set for the polls. Even then, we all saw what came out of the Electoral Petition with former Chairman of the commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan sitting embarrassed in the witness box and reciting twenty-seven zero and several problems with the pink-sheet.
As it is, with 35 days to the actual vote, nothing is certain. We are all in a cycle of uncertainty because the chairperson has not got her pulse on the job.
The Chronicle has always believed that it was wrong to entrust the electoral destiny of this country in the hands of such an untried and untested personality like Charlotte Osei, who appears to have a very weak appreciation of dialogue as a key factor in solving key problems.
The only safe route to the vote is for those directing the show from a distance to appreciate the harm they are doing to this country and relieve her of this burden. She is on a mission to lead Ghana and all its people into temptation.
Source: The Chronicle
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She and her family will not live to enjoy the booty given her a and the subsequent promised ones if she attempt any ***barred word*** game for the Ruling party,wheather they are here or abroad.GHANA NEED CHANGE of GOVERNMENT.(***barred word***).
This woman is daring Ghanaians. She thinks she is tough. If she try any ***barred word*** move by rigging the elections, I swear to God she will regret it.
Yes the Bible said that "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me" (LUKE 19:27 KJV) let us all pray in agreement: who are the enemies!! the laries, the ghost names the foreigners names on the register and anybody who has been assign to perform anything that is contrary to the electoral reform are the enemies, we will first pray that God forgive them for their evil plans, they desired to execute their evil plans them they face the rough of God
You this hypocrites leave her alone to do her work
obama is from kanya and was born in u.s.a now the prisident of u.s.a so what is wrong for a nigeria born in ghana so be the ec boss
why dont you call nduom to also stop dragging the EC to court after it is a race and he was not able to meet the requirements, what kind of president will nduom be if he is disqualified for not doing the right thing. he has taken the EC to court, cant the EC also defend itself? Hypocrites Ghanaians, stop insulting noble woman. those who cannot stand the EC boss are corruption, lazy, dishonest, disloyal, and greed
WE ARE IN TROUBLE INDEED,,SERIOUSLY WHAT IS THIS POSTURE..IT IS ABSOLUTELY UNCALLED FOR..SUDDENLY THERE IS LITIGATION EVERYWHERE...THIS IS NOT GHANAIAN AT ALL...IT IS BECAUSE MAHAM DOES NOT NO ANY COMPETENT PERSON IN THIS NATION TO BE EC APART FROM A NIGERIAN...WHO DOES NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO THIS COUNTRY.....YOU CAN SEE PROBLEMS AHEAD...BCOS WE ARE VOTING FOR A CHANGE AND MAHAMA SAYS NO...
I will place the blame at the door step of the v1s1onllesss and incompetent John Mahama for appointing this Arrogant Nigerian girl to such a sensitive position leaving true blood and competent Ghanaians who will do a better job.
Please stop calling her OSEI.Ghanaians should better call her Arrogant Charlotte.
The World development index says that we must promote gender inclusiveness but when Ghana is doing that and putting female gender in leadership but we are becoming obstinate and callous by lambasting tappappointment of Mrs Charllote Osei and this is becoming absurdity. WE ARE FAILING OURSELVES BY ACTING IN THIS WAY.