President of the NDC Pro-Forum North America Arnold Appiah has cautioned the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensah over her leadership style.
The Jean Mensah led EC has been accused of reducing the Inter-party Advisory Committee to a platform for the dissemination of information.
The EC has so far ignored calls from key opposition parties, civil society organizations, traditional leaders and former Presidents to reconsider their stance on the compilation of a new voters register.
The leading opposition party NDC is currently in court to get the EC to accept the current voters register as identification document for the planned registration exercise.
Arnold Appiah told Sena Nombo on the Gold Power Drive, the stance of the current leadership of the EC would breed chaos because of the discontent their decisions are creating.
He said a deputy EC Chairperson Bossman Asare’s claim that the NDC is a “threat to democracy” is an example of the EC’s non-conciliatory approach that poses a threat to multiparty democracy.
The NDC Pro-Forum North America President said Jean Mensah’s approach is undermining the gains made by her predecessors who built consensus on key decisions that had the potential of influencing the quality and integrity of Ghana’s elections.
The switch to a biometric voters register was famously proposed and pushed by the New Patriotic Party but was accepted by IPAC after a thorough consultative process.
Arnold Appiah said the kind of consultative spirit encouraged by the EC that has kept Ghana’s democracy intact and preserved peace is lacking in the work of this EC.
Source: Gold Power Drive/Radiogoldlive.com
