Leader of the United Progressive Party(UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike has said that he thinks the Electoral Commission Chairperson should be elected and not appointed.
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Speaking in an interview on Happy FM, Odike quizzed as to why the constitution cannot be amended so that other commissioners will be made to elect the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission.
“Why don’t we change our Constitution so that we allow the various commissioners vote to elect one of them as EC chair rather than the President appointing the EC Chair? We have given the President the power to select the heads of a lot of institutions and that is what allows corruption, lies, cronyism and all the things that work against the good of the country. But when you talk about the Constitution, the NDC and the NPP are all silent. No one wants to talk about the revision because they benefit from the Constitution. And that is worrying”
This comes after former President Mahama’s assessment of the new Electoral Commission, saying it had failed to live up to its slogan of transparency, honesty, and justice.
Odike believes that the system has failed to live up to its task, describing the EC as “bias”.
However, Mr. John Dramani Mahama has disagreed with the Supreme Court’s verdict on the 2020 Election Petition, following the failure of the EC to testify.
