The Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo is holding on to hope that the Electoral Commission will deliver on its mandate of free, fair and credible elections on December 7.
The months leading up to the December 7 elections have seen the Electoral Commission (EC) dominate the news cycle for mostly wrong reasons; ranging from the protracted attempts to get the Commission to clean the electoral roll to the handling of the special voting exercise that ended with thousands of security personnel fearing they had been disenfranchised.
Responding to questions on his belief in the EC’s ability to effectively organise the polls on Citi TV’s Politicos, Nana Akufo-Addo simply said, “I have to, because I am committed to the process.”
Nana Akufo-Addo’s thoughts on the upcoming polls were encapsulated in the theme of hope as he noted that he was going to buy into the EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei’s verbal commitment to ensuring a fair electoral process.
“She [Mrs. Osei] has made a public commitment to that effect that she is going to deliver the best-organised election in our history. I want to believe her and I have to believe her.”
The NPP Flagbearer, however, stressed that his hope in the EC’s ability to conduct credible polls stretched beyond the personality steering the Commission as he said, “I don’t believe in her [Mrs. Osei]. I believe in the institution; the Electoral Commission. It is an important institution in our country and all of are required to give it our best possible support.”
We must pray EC’s arrangement are satisfactory
He also lauded the EC’s decision to extend the special with the hope that the hitches brought on by “special circumstances” would not extend to the voting process on December 7.
The EC on Thursday announced that it would allow the thousands of security personnel nationwide who were unable to vote in yesterday’s limited registration exercise to do so on Sunday.
The personnel were turned away because their names were not on the special voting register in the constituencies they thought they had registered in.
But Nana Akufo-Addo’s plea to Ghanaians was that, “our prayer must be that whatever the difficulties were in yesterday’s vote… is not going to be witnessed on Wednesday. We have to hope that things are well organised because if the same level of chaos was to happen on Wednesday as happened yesterday [Thursday] then the country has serious problems.”
“I believe the wish of the Ghanaian people in their overwhelming numbers is to have an incident free, fair, transparent process on Wednesday so that their voice can be properly articulated and heard. All of us must be on our knees in prayer that the arrangements that the Electoral Commission has put into place are going to satisfactory arrangements on Wednesday,” Nana Akufo-Addo stated.
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