Central Regional Secretary of New Patriotic Party, Kwamena Duncan has lambasted the Electoral Commission (EC) for disqualifying thirteen Presidential aspirants from contesting this year's elections.
The EC disqualified the candidates for failing to meet all the necessary requirements and so not meeting the criteria for filing as Presidential aspirants.
Only four candidates were passed by the Commission and they are: Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ivor Greenstreet of CPP and independent candidate Jacob Osei Yeboah.
Speaking on Peace FM's Kokrokoo, Kwamena Duncan expressed concerns that the current EC administration is surrounded by too many controversies.
According to him, the controversies does not augur well and it's an indictment on the Commission.
Kwamena noted that the treatment meted out to the disqualified candidates by the Commission is unfair, because to him, the Commission could have allowed for rectifications to be done before taken such "harsh" decisions against them.
He feared the EC's decision may have some future ramifications for the country as it is the first to have taken such decision against Presidential aspirants.
Comparing the incumbent Commissioner to her predecessors, Kwamena Duncan stressed that he "shudders" for the Commission because "the danger there is in this; that in the future, if we leave this to stand, we can have an Electoral Commission that could be mischievous…We have had elections for six good times. This is the seventh one. That this mass disqualification; was it that they (aspirants) were not doing it well or they (electoral body) were not checking it in the past and that all of a sudden the lenses have become so [so, so] detail-specific…If care is not taken, the slippery road on which we find ourselves; into the future, I shudder for it.”
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi /Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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I share the same concern with Kwamena Duncan. For the sixth time that we have had elections in Ghana, we did not experience any of this. Why now? This EC is surrounded with too many controversies and it is not good for our elections. The EC need to be advised to stop all this problems.
NPP people shine your eyes ooooh shine your eyes!!! What the EC has done is precisely what it did to a smaller extent in 2012 by eliminating Nana Konadu Rawlings. It is a ploy to make it easier for Mahama to get 50% plus one!! In 2012 if Nana Konadu has contested and even gotten 2%, Mahama would not have crossed the 50% plus one mark!!! The same consideration is informing what the ec is doing today through the long arm of influence of Sule Amadu and Charlotte Osei. Nana Konadu is disrupting the NDC in the Volta Region, Nduom is doing same with Bridget in the V/R and in the C/R. PNC is picking up disgruntled NDC supporters in the North. If even these parties were to get 5% collectively, none of the two parties, NDC, NPP will crossed 50% plus one, and a second round will happen. NDC knows it will be finished in any event of a second round......The entire scheme is to narrow the field and make it easier for Mahama to get 50% plus one. As often in their complacency NPP is quiet over it. Yet this action by the EC is the single biggest threat to any NPP victory. NPP shine your eyes, oooooo SHINE YOUR EYES! Aaaaaaba!!!
We are 24 years in the fourth republic and we are not minnows again and those who they should treated with KID GLOVES AND has now waken up from their slumber. They had three weeks to fill the form and they threw away diligence and meticulous and they are dreaming the Supreme court would overturn the decisions of the EC. GHANA IS GOING FORWARD AND THERE IS NO RETREAT OR SURRENDER.
My brother dont worry at all, the wish for war and the will have it. They have thrown the first blow. Like the Black Stars, Foreign fighters are lining up to move, Liberia and Seralion will be a joke.
Next time the EC will disqualify both NDC and NPP presidential candidates on the same basis and we will see what will happen... How clean is the bogus register of the EC?
CHANGE, CHANGE, The great change is coming.
ARE THESE THE INTELLECTUALS THE NPP CAN BOAST OF?? WHAT A SHAME!!