Kwamena Duncan has slammed the opposition National Democratic Congress over their suggestion for the Electoral Commission to shift the petition by the Seventh Day Adventists that to change the December 7 election date.
The National Democratic Congress has proposed that the Electoral Commission should push the implementation of the petition to 2028.
The General Secretary of the party, Fiifi Kwetey, in a statement sighted by Peacefmonline, stressed; “The NDC states without equivocation that the EC’s quest to hold the general election in November, 2024, will not be supported by the NDC.”
He also deflated the claim that majority of the political parties support the EC to effect the change this year.
“It is, therefore, strange but not unexpected that the Deputy Chair of the EC misled the public that almost about 60 percent of political parties supported the proposal for elections to be held in November, 2024 at the IPAC meeting held on Monday, January 19, 2024”, he stated.
But according to Kwamena Duncan, the NDC is Ghana's public enemy as they tend not to support any good thing to prosper the nation.
He wondered what difference it makes if the Adventists' petition comes into effect now.
"Why not now and why 2028? What makes 2028 so different from today?", he asked, punching holes in the opposition party's argument.
To him, the way the NDC is behaving towards the proposal leaves no Ghanaian in doubt that they are antagonistic towards Ghana's democracy.
"If there is any public enemy of our democracy, no Ghanaian should be left in doubt who they are. Look, a political party worth its salt, even if it the concerns of one person, a political party must do what is within their remit, their power to bring that one person on board...What can a progressive country can do and what can progressive party, what can they do? It is not that that is not capable of being done. It is not that that the change is not capable of being done", he told host Nana Yaw Kesseh on Peace FM's morning show "Kokrokoo".
The former Central Regional Minister was highly convinced that it is possible to fix this year's elections in November, exclaiming "it can easily, easily be done even if we decide that we want to do it today".
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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The SDA church has genuine concern but what i dont understand is them waiting for the election year for them to bring this major reforms, immediately the 2020 elections was heldz they knew the 2024 election will be held on a Saturday that's when they should have pushed these reforms, at least the political parties would have debated it and come with a conclusion, you dont wait for the election and u petition the electoral commission to change the date.
@yaw frank, edem kudzo, I guess you're the kind of people who believe in the pathetic illiterate notion that the NPP was used to cut your umbilical cords. You're probably also greedily benefiting from the massive ***barred word*** that the government is championing, hence your sense of judgement is totally flawed. How can a sane and neutral person happily justify the deeds of this government? Do you know the number of unreasonable taxes they have surreptitiously introduced after labeling some of the existing ones as "nuisance"? Why are they collecting COVID taxes till date? What are those taxes being used for anyway? You're granting huge tax relives to foreign firms but collecting every penny from your poor citizens, is your brain working? And the saddest of it all, what have they used the huge revenues that they have collected for? A government that has collapsed the already fragile state institution. Today, the judiciary is not independent and have lost all their credibility, the security services are even worse, electoral commission has been infiltrated, what is more nation wrecking than this?
Ghana's problem is NDC, had it not been PNDC/NDC, Ghana would have been developed long time. NDC is the threat to national development, cohesion and democracy. We must perpetually keep them in opposition forever, for Ghana to develop.
The NDC Party is the only party in Ghana that has opposed almost every national intervention consideration during our ongoing Forth Republic. They opposed the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme by former president J. A. Kufour. They opposed the introduction of Free SHS by current president Nana Akufo Addo. They opposed almost every single reform of our electoral governance system all because they are afraid that if the system is transparent then, they (NDC) will never win political power. How wicked a group of people calling themselves a political party (NEC) could be. They (NDC) are indeed the enemies of state. This time around Ghanaians have resolved not to fall for their ***barred word*** whims and caprices.
Look at this one, real nation wreckers. They pontificate others as though they love the nation. You people don't spare any opportunity to loot this nation so stop branding NPP as though they loved Ghana while others hate Ghana. What's more undemocratic than the culture of silence you guys have perpetuated? What's more destructive than putting a known NPP executive at a very sensitive place at the EC? Was it because he is the only Ghanaian with the expertise required? What is more undemocratic than killing people at elections or plugging people's eyes even at your internal elections? What's is more undemocratic than making party elections in Ghana win for the highest payer? I can mention countless number of demonic undemocratic things this NPP government has institutionalised in Ghana, yet you shameIessly come out to label others. How does changing the date of election now benefit Ghana? Or because you guys think that might benefit your party? SDA may have a good concern but the communication should have been held long ago, do you know the number of groups that will come out in the future to ask for change of statutory dates because of this precedence? Of course I don't blame you because that's the character of most of you politicians, you lack the ability to critically analyse issues, you lack the ability to look into the future so all your decisions can be flamboyant but not lasting.
kwamena Duncan you are a fooooooool, cheap politics, you want ghanaians to believe SDA think for EC. check pass election days and see some fall on friday or sunday before, did the EC change date because muslems and other christains worship of friday and sunday respectively. you are a disgrace to education, fantes, your family