The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected accusations the party is scheming to remove the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei for their political advantage. President Akufo-Addo On Wednesday referred the petition demanding Madam Osei’s removal, to the Chief Justice. The NDC had stated previously that the NPP was behind the petition but speaking … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected accusations the party is scheming to remove the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei for their political advantage. President Akufo-Addo On Wednesday referred the petition demanding Madam Osei’s removal, to the Chief Justice. The NDC had stated previously that the NPP was behind the petition but speaking to Duke Mensah … Read more
An insurance marketer believes Members of Parliament wasted the time, energy and resources of the state on Wednesday with the grilling of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei. Mr. Edgar Wiredu said “what they did was unnecessary. They should have used that time to revoke the Article 298 of the constitutions because there is … Read more
Electoral Commission Chairperson says monies the commission took from journalists for accreditation during last year’s elections were intact. Mrs. Charlotte Osei disclosed that the money estimated at over GH¢2.5 million was sitting in the EC’s bank accounts at the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB). In her response to an urgent question filed over the failure of … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has referred a petition purporting to invoke Article 146(3) of the Constitution, in respect of the office of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, to the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo. A statement from the Director of Communication at the Office of the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, yesterday … Read more
The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) Ghana has joined calls for the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission and her deputies to step aside, following allegations of financial malfeasance levelled against them. Madam Charlotte Osei and her deputies have come under intense pressure to resign, following allegations of corruption made against her by employees of the … Read more
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei has said that that commission has not expended monies it accrued from the replacement of voter IDs for Ghanaians ahead of the 2016 December elections. According to her, the EC made over GH¢2.5 million from the replacement process and more than GH¢42,000 cedis from the sale … Read more
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei, says monies collected from journalists for accreditation in the December 7, 2016 general elections and other internally generated funds are not missing. She told Parliament Wednesday that the failure to capture the total amount of GHC 42,710 collected from journalists in the Commission’s 2017 financial report was … Read more
Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has questioned the legitimacy of parliament to attempt resolving a simmering rift between chairperson of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei and other Commissioners of the EC. Leadership of Parliament has scheduled a meeting with Mrs Osei and the Commissioners on Wednesday to resolve rift arising out of corruption and mismanagement allegations … Read more
The Leadership of Parliament has scheduled a meeting with the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission and other Commissioners on Wednesday to resolve the simmering development at the Commission that has sent tongues wagging. There have been accusations and counter-accusations of corruption and mismanagement at Ghana’s electoral body mainly involving the Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, and two … Read more
The Electoral Commission may soon have a lawsuit on its hand if its embattled Director of Finance, Dr. Joseph Kwaku Asamoah, is not reinstated following the directive proceed on leave following the loss of some GHc480,000 from the EC’s Staff Endowment Fund. A letter, dated July 13, 2017, from Dr. Asamoah’s lawyers to the EC threatened legal action … Read more
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has referred a petition by some unknown staff of the Electoral Commission seeking to impeach its head Mrs. Charlotte Osei to the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo. The petition was received by the Office of the President whilst the President was out of the country last week, but a press … Read more
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei is scheduled to appear before Parliament later today [Wednesday]. She is expected to account for money collected from journalists as accreditation fees and how that has been spent. The question that has dragged her to the house stands in the name of the MP for Subin … Read more
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei has paid a courtesy call on the widow of slain Army Officer, Barbara Mahama at Burma Camp, Accra. The Electoral Commissioner was accompanied by GHOne TV Newscaster, Nana Aba Anamoah and Sandra Ankobiah. The group’s visit to the wife of the late Major was to determine how Barbara and the children … Read more
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has sued the lawyer of the so-called staff of the Electoral Commission who are seeking her removal from office by the President. In a suit intercepted by Starr News, the EC boss, among others, is asking the court to restrain Maxwell Opoku Agyemang from making comments which will further … Read more
The National Peace Council has now called for a probe into the allegations surfacing at the Electoral Commission as a result of a public dispute between the EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, and her two deputies. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, Chairman of the Council, Professor Emmanuel Asante, who had earlier called for an internal arbitration process to … Read more
Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has called on the government to set up a commission of enquiry to probe matters arising at the Electoral Commission (EC), headed by Mrs. Charlotte Osei. They said government’s failure to do this will result in it taking part of the blame for what is happening at the commission. At … Read more
Though he said he has no personal vendetta against the Mrs Osei, his position and judgment on Mrs Osei is purely base upon her performance since her appointment. “I still stand by my earlier claim that Madam Charlotte Osei is stupid and I would even add that she is ignorant to manage the EC office”, … Read more
Embattled chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has sued lawyer for the anonymous staff of the Commission who are seeking her removal from office for alleged corruption and breaches of law. The staff claimed Mrs Osei without recourse to laid down administrative structures and the Public Procurement Act, singularly abrogated contracts, secured … Read more
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) , Charlotte Osei has sued the lawyer who signed the petition presented to the President by aggrieved employees of the Commission, Matthew Opoku Agyemang. The lawyer, Matthew Opoku Agyemang signed the petition for the workers who were not named in the petition. Some aggrieved employees of the Electoral … Read more