National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has called for the immediate removal of the entire leadership of the Electoral Commission (EC), led by Chairperson Jean Mensa. According to Asiedu Nketia, the current team is unfit to manage credible elections in Ghana due to their gross incompetence.
“There has to be a change. I think the top three leaders must all go. The Chairperson, Jean Mensa, and her deputies, Bossman Asare and Samuel Tettey—they must all go. They have mismanaged the Commission so badly,” Asiedu Nketia stated.
He criticized the Commission’s handling of recent electoral matters, particularly the unresolved parliamentary election in Ablekuma North. “You cannot still be having an election that will go into a stalemate. There is no anticipation of any stalemate in our laws unless people don’t want to do their work well… It’s a clear case of negligence or inability to perform its functions,” he added.
Asiedu Nketia cited the disenfranchisement of the SALL constituency in the 2020 general elections as a key failure, noting that “a whole constituency went unrepresented for four years.” He also mentioned the Ayawaso West by-election, saying “everything has been messed up.”
The NDC Chairman emphasized the need for fundamental restructuring of the EC to meet its constitutional mandate. “Resetting the EC means bringing it back to an institution that is fit for purpose. The way it is existing now, it is not fit for purpose,” he stressed.
Asiedu Nketia concluded with a strong rebuke of the current administration’s continued support for the EC’s leadership, saying, “If in any serious country we want to maintain this type of Electoral Commission, then I don’t know what the country is about.”
