National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has launched a scathing attack on the Electoral Commission (EC), calling for a complete reset of its leadership and functions.
General Mosquito, as he is affectionately called, described the current body as "not fit for purpose." In a heated interview on JoyNews' PM Express on Wednesday, June 25, Asiedu Nketia pointed to what he called the Commission's "negligence" and "inability to perform its functions" as justification for his call. "We are having the wrong election management body in place," he declared. "That is a subject of reset in the future." Asked by host Evans Mensah to clarify what a "reset" of the EC meant, the NDC Chairman replied, "It means bringing it back to an institution that is fit for purpose.
The way it is existing now, [it's] not fit for purpose. "Because you cannot have, with all the laws that we have, an election that will go into a stalemate.
There is no anticipation of any stalemate in any of our laws-unless people don't want to do their work well." He described the unresolved situation in Ablekuma North, where no Member of Parliament has been sworn in six months after the election, as a clear symptom of what he sees as electoral mismanagement. "This is a clear case of negligence or inability to perform its functions," he said. "It's a good reason why the Electoral Commission needs to be reset." But his critique didn't stop there.
