EC Must Use 2024 Elections To Redeem Its Image - John Mahama

Former President and the NDC flagbearer for the 2020 general elections, John Mahama has asked Electoral Commission to work towards redeeming its image in the next general elections in 2024. Mahama also said the Electoral Commission under the leadership of Jean Mensa superintended over the country’s worst elections

in 2020 and so will have to work hard to repair the poor image it has created for itself. Speaking in an interview with Volta Region-based Global FM, as part of his Thank You Tour of the region, John Mahama expressed regret that the EC appears to have taken a stance against the NDC, although it is expected to be neutral. During the

Ayawaso West Wuogon violence probe, they asked her [Jean Mensa] about violence in the election, and she said they didn’t see any violence. She has a mindset towards rigging the election against the NDC. You have an EC Commission who says the NDC is an existential threat to Ghana’s democracy, and yet she is still at the

Commission and making decisions with respect to fair elections. They conducted one of the worst elections [in 2020]. I don’t have the power to remove them, and it is likely that they will be the EC commissioners for 2024. They should use 2024 to redeem themselves, he added also. Mr John Mahama further disclosed that the NDC

is continuing with its stakeholder engagements on its electoral reform proposals ahead of the 2024 elections. We set up a committee to also come up with proposed electoral reforms. We came up with proposals which we have presented to the EC too, and we have done some activations. We’ve met the religious groups and various

groups and trying to also explain to them why if these proposals are carried out, it will lead to a better electoral outcome in Ghana than we’ve seen in the past, Mahama said.