The governing New Patriotic Party has described as unfortunate the decision by Kenya to deport Peter Mac Manu, the party’s campaign manager in the 2016 elections.
The Acting General Secretary of the party, John Boadu said the action by the Kenyan authorities does not bode well for the democratic development of Africa.
Mr. Mac Manu arrived in Ghana yesterday after he was denied entry into Kenya by authorities of that country.
He was leading a delegation of the Democratic Union of Africa to observe the Kenya elections scheduled for next Tuesday, but was stopped at the airport.
John Boadu says the party considers the incident very seriously.
He told Joy News’ Beatrice Adu the governing party will investigate the circumstances under which its campaign manager was deported and take a decision.
“I had a wind of what happened at the Airport. It is unfortunate that a country like Kenya that has been evolving will engage in something like this.
“They were the first country to have experienced the use of law court to settle election dispute.
“Mac Manu is a member of the Democratic Union of Africa which is a sub body of the bigger body of the International Democratic Union.
“It is rather unfortunate that the Kenya authorities will behave like that,” he lamented.
“I don’t know what the motive was. Whatever it was, it was wrong,” he added.
He denied assertions Mac Manu was going to Kenya to cause a regime change.
Especially when Ghana’s ex-president is in the same country as an observer, John Boadu said the Kenyan authorities cannot pick and choose which individual they will allow to observe the election.
He said the governing party will take a strong view on the matter.
On Tuesday August 8, Kenyans will go to the polls to decide whether to retain incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta, a Kikuyu, and his long-standing rival Raila Odinga.
It will be a repeat of the 2013 election which saw the same men vying for the top job in a relatively peaceful election.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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@K.K and @ERNEST so you would have been happy if the EC had short-changed the results of the December 2016 to NDC. While the majority of Ghanaians (over 1.5 million people) have been denied their choice. Compare how NDC celebrated 2008 and 2012 election victories to that of the 2016 Election which NPP won. You could see that this is the proper liberation from bondage. By the way whether they (NPP) are incompetent or NOT. Let us wait for 3 to 4 years their achievement. There we will compare situations. His returned have been (in my mind) engineered by JDM because he has told them that if this Mac is able to join them in the observation of the results, NOBODY can rig for the incumbent. Hence hi departation.
I can smell a made in Ghana 'rat' in a hole in Kenya behind the whole deportation saga.
MAC MANU THE ELECTION ***barred word*** HAS BEEN IN THE INTERNATIONAL REALM. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Papa.....do not turn a blind eye on the fact that thanks to the internet, the world is now a global village. The news about the 2 Israeli's tech gurus, who came into the country, who actually succeeded in compromising the electronic system leading to the EC discontinuing its usage....is all over. Whiles counting was still on going, you were declaring results......Tell me, you mean a normal human being in his/her right frame of mind will not take a second look at someone of such calibre, but sit and watch the harm caused before here or she exclaims, "had we known"? The evil that men do leaves after them.......there is nothing the NPP can do.... you can't do "foko".... Just back down and fine ways and means of redeeming our image!!!
INCOMPETENT NPP ADMINISTRATION!!! YOU JUST FORM A GROUP AND JUMP INTO A PLANE TO GO AND OBSERVE ELECTIONS!!LOL!!
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