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The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says they would resist any attempt by the NPP government to impeach the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei.
Some staff members of the EC have accused the EC Boss of engaging in certain acts of misconduct and bringing the image of the Commission into disrepute.
They have therefore petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo and Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo to remove Madam Charlotte Osei from office.
But the NDC led by the Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu purports the Akufo-Addo's administration wants to use a strategy to expel the EC Boss just as the President "used similar strategy to sack some heads of public institutions after assuming office."
“Nana Akufo-Addo should not extend his encroachment and political polarization to EC," he stated.
But in a quick riposte to the NDC position on the issue, the Acting General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu warned the opposition party not to drag the Akufo-Addo government into the matter.
According to him, the government has no hands in the accusations pointing to the EC Boss by the concerned Staff.
He wondered how the NPP would pursue such a course of action when they didn't do so while in opposition.
John Boadu noted that the NPP had a landslide victory in the 2016 elections and so doesn't see substance in the NDC allegations against the government.
He smelled a plot by the NDC to use the NPP as an excuse to advance their hidden motives to perhaps opt for the removal of the EC Boss because they might be having problems with her.
“I don’t know the kind of arrangement you people had with her that has made you angry for you to say these things. Because if that’s not the issue, why do you bring NPP in this matter? What suggests that the NPP has interest in this issue . . . If you have a problem with her, don’t use the NPP as a bait to get this woman out,” he cautioned.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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NDC IS SICKK IN MIND AND CORRUPT SO THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND ANY INVESTIGATION OF ELECTORAL COMMISSION OFFICE. WHY SHOULD NOT NDC ALLOW EC TO BE INDEPENDENT TO FIGHT ITS OWN FIGHT. WHY SHOULD CORRUPTION CASE RAISED AGAINST EC BOSS BECOME POLITICAL FIGHT FOR NDC. IF THE PETITIONERS HAS VIOLATED ANY LAW LET EC BOSS AND HER LAWYERS CHALLENGE THEM TO IT. NDC IS BEHAVING IRRESPONSIBLYYY AND SHAMEFULYYY AS IF THEY HAVE NO MATUREDD AND INTELLIGENTTT PERSON IN THE PARTY TO ADVICE THEM. THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR RULE OF LAW AND THEY ALWAYS ACT AND REACT IRRATIONALLYL AND EMOTIONNALLY. NDC MUST REMEMBER THAT THEY WORLD IS MOVING AWAY FROM SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH VIOLENCE TO ADDRESSING ISSUES WITH REASON AND RULE OF LAW.
When a party as no respect for intellectuals this is what happens. Please attack the substance of the matter presented to the President and leave the NPP out of this issue. If the matters petitioned are found to be true then it was rather the EC chair who dug her own grave. Those who live in glass houses do not throw stones.
channel their anger to petitioners for what, when all you did when in opposition was to even blame mahama for anything and everything. Akkuffo Addo is trouble and Ghana will know no peace till he leave office.
The attitude of the Haruna Iddrisu and his party is a mark of someone who has not worked in a developed country before. Why dont they channel their anger to the petitioners. That is why Ghana is still a lame country. Nothing good can be learned from the people. Yet they claim be enlightened. It is high time Ghanaians get disillusioned to the fact that there is nothing good about them. An average Ghanaian is corrupt!
we dont need a prophet to tell us when ndc is guilty of something. its very simple. anytime they accuse NPP of something, know that they are the ones behind it. where ever there is any form of mischief just know that it is ndc. as for this woman's issue i dont even want to talk abt it bcos I knew this would happened after she went ahead to declare Nana the winner. she knew the ple after her so she should go and settle with them. believe me their (ndc) main interest in that petition is to get her attention for renegotiation towards the 2020 elections and not to impeach her in any way. but thank God we know their ways now. ndc=evil.