Don’t appoint your cheerleader as referee

President Mahama’s appointment of Emelia Afi Agbenyo as a Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission raises a question that no impressive CV can answer: why burden an institution requiring public confidence with an avoidable controversy over political allegiance?

The President should reconsider this appointment and explain the safeguards used to assess political impartiality.

The nation deserves an electoral referee whose appointment does not begin with an argument about which team she supports.