Prof Gyampo Faults EC Mode Of Pulling Out Of NDC Primaries

Astute Political Scientist Pof Ransford Gyamfo has identified a fault with the Electoral Commission’s mode of pulling out of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s presidential and parliamentary primaries scheduled for Saturday.

According to him, how the EC pulled out of the primaries tends to deepen the perception of its partiality against the NDC.

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Jean Mensah announced its decision to observe an interlocutory injunction filed to restrain it from supervising the elections.

The Commission relayed this message to representatives of all the three aspirants of the party’s presidential primary on Wednesday, May 10 after being served with the application for Interlocutory Injunction on May 9.

According to the EC, it cannot supervise the elections for fear of being cited for contempt of court.

“Gentlemen, in order that we are not cited for contempt, the Commission has taken the decision not to supervise the conduct of the Presidential and Parliamentary elections until after the determination of the case by the court,” she told them.

The restraining order was secured by Dr Kwabena Dufffour- one of the presidential aspirants- against the primaries scheduled for May 13 following concerns that there are discrepancies and inaccuracies in the voter’s register also known as Photo Album.

The suit came after he had written to the National Secretary of the party about his concerns saying, “Upon review of the 220 constituencies voters register (photo album) we identified several discrepancies in the register that indicate it is both incomplete and inaccurate.”

To Prof Gyampo, the “EC wasn’t wrong in pulling out”, however, involving media was.

“This could have been discussed in camera without the media. What has been done may deepen the perception that they don’t like the NDC”.

In a Facebook post, he held that “competence is key to functioning as an arbiter”.