Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Martin Alamisi Amidu insists the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has a grand agenda to rig the December 7 elections for “her mentors”.
Mr Amidu said but for the “activism” of the media, civil society as well as political parties, Charlotte Osei would have snubbed the High Court judgement and still disqualified the 13 presidential aspirants.
“I have said that the Commissioner’s choice of the two major political parties, the NPP and the NDC with a sprinkle of the CPP and an independent candidate at the beginning was done in pursuance of a rigging agenda with her mentors,” he said in a release on Monday, November 14.
“However, it was the enormous hurricane of pressure from civil society, civil society organizations, and the media that resulted in the addition to the ballot of three of the most active candidates out of the 13 originally disqualified candidates.”
The anti-graft advocate, who is popularly known as Citizen Vigilante, raised doubts about the transparency of even the process of selecting the additional three of Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, Dr Edward Mahama and Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings.
“This time the Commission did not publish any statement to give the public reasons why the other eight candidates did not make it to the ballot.
“As a result, the public is unable to make an informed opinion of her fairness and transparency in the matter.”
Mr Amidu alleged that Mrs Osei’s mentors have targeted the leader and founder of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings.
“I believe that Her Excellency Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings’ nomination was the main target of the Commissioner’s mentors.
“But the Nduom case was on all fours with Her Excellency Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings’ case, making a challenge for the Commissoner to undertake a gamble with her alleged additional new errors.”
The former presidential running mate insinuated that Hassan Ayariga, for instance, may have been included if he had not talked about reorganizing the Commission should he win the elections.
“He should have known better and kept quiet,” Mr Amidu noted, suggesting a reorganization of the Commission and subsequent impeachment of Mrs Osei immediately after the elections.
He said doing so now “is too late in the month”.
He states that his suggestion should be spearheaded by “responsible members of the media, civil society and civil society organizations who love the Republic of Ghana’s constitutional and democratic dispensations of free, fair and transparent political representation for elections and referenda.”
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