National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama has bemoaned the work of the current Electoral Commission leadership.
Speaking in an interview on Woezor TV, the former president noted that the current EC Boss, Mrs Jean Mensah runs the electoral processes very strangely which could breed chaos on the election day.
He said, “I’m prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt that she has no malicious intent to rig the election but the degree of efficiency of giving us a credible voter register, is what we’re talking about”.
“I’m not talking about whether she has an evil intention or what. I know she is a Christian and I’m sure that in her own mind, she knows that she must do the right thing but the point is, the steps that they are taking are so inefficient and incompetent that we don’t know what is happening.
“We’ve had ECs, we’ve gone through registration exercises; this is the most disorderly and chaotic registration exercise we’ve ever seen and I’m worried about the election day because those new BVRs they’ve brought, we don’t know whether they work; people are going to try and they are going to be rejected but their names are going to be on the register and it’s going to create a lot of chaos.
“They’ve brought a new system where the presiding officer can override both the fingerprint and the facial recognition and do a manual. Meanwhile, my thought was that – and what they said was that – this new system is more efficient and is going to reduce the number of manual verifications that we do. It seems likely that it is rather going to increase it because we’ve not tested it, we’ve not done test runs, and, so, I fear for the chaos that will occur on election day”, Mahama stated.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
