EC, And State Institutions Must Learn From The US Elections – John Mahama

The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, says Ghana can learn a lot of lessons from the just-ended elections of the United States of America, including the independence of state institutions.

Speaking in an interview with reporters, he said despite the fact that President Donald Trump at a point ordered for the complete halt of the counting of the ballots, the institutions were independent and assertive.

“And that is the kind of predictability and strengthening of institutions we seek in Ghana. That institutions are able to work without political influence and I wonder what would have happened if the same was happening in Ghana. But we will see how things go”, Mr Mahama said.

He, therefore, called for a collective effort to strengthen institutions like the Electoral Commission, the judiciary, the legislature and those institutions that anchor Ghana’s democracy to offer the right service and mandate that the people have given them, without any partisan consideration.

Source: GhanaFeed.Com