The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) under the stewardship of Nana Akufo Addo has been badly exposed in the European Union’s Election Observation Mission (EOM) final report on Ghana’s 2020.
The report said although the Electoral Commission conducted a relatively free and fair election, the abuse of state power and resources did not offer a level playing field for the other contesting parties.
Presenting the EU EOM’s final report on its observation of the election, Mr. Nart explained that the mission returned to Ghana to present the report to the country’s authorities, and to discuss with stakeholders the proposed reforms contained in the report.
“The conclusion in the mission’s final report is that the elections were efficiently organized, competitive, that voters participated freely in large numbers, and that the process successfully met a range of international standards,” Mr. Nart said, adding that the overall conduct of voting was assessed positively in 95 per cent of polling stations observed.
“However, shortcomings already identified by previous EU election observation missions remain, such as the misuse of state resources, the abuse of incumbency, vote-buying, and unregulated campaign finances. These resulted in an uneven playing field.”
Meanwhile, the General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu has said the president won’t hesitate to sack any minister who distracts him with his presidential ambition. ‘President Akufo-Addo, in his capacity as the President of the Republic of Ghana, has made it clear that anybody that he finds to be distracting his government as a result of his or her ambition, he would not hesitate in getting them out of his government, so that they can concentrate on their presidential ambition or whatever.
Sometimes it is very difficult for me to talk about these things but it looks like that is what we are to do. So we are putting forward some proposals to the [NPP] National Steering Committee quickly by this month we would be at a National Executive Committee to fashion out some guidance in order to allow government work to go on,’ he said on Asaase Radio.
SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com
