Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress,
Kofi Adams has implored the opposition New Patriotic Party to accede to
the Electoral Commission (EC’s) request, by proposing the necessary
reforms that can help improve the country’s electoral system.
Kofi Adams, in an interview with Radio Gold, warned the party not to
continue their agenda of painting the Commission black in the sight of
Ghanaians in order to ruin its integrity.
According to him, if the party members have got any suggestions to make
in order to assist the Commission to draw out effective electoral
reforms, they should voice it out.
The NPP should tell the nation “what kind of reforms workable that they
have suggested in the past to the Electoral Commission for which the
Electoral Commission has not implemented, then we can now make a serious
debate out of that…They have not given us any such example in the first
place,” he said, also disclosing that the party “is just continuing the
agenda that they sought to pursue at the petition hearing where it was
more let’s discredit this institution; let’s say they did not run a
transparent election…So, if the court has seen the wisdom and thrown out
our case, let’s continue that agenda outside of the court and make it
look like even whatever the Electoral Commission is doing, it is not
genuine.”
To him, the NPP will be the ‘biggest losers’ in their attempt to run
the Commission down because “if you create credibility doubt for an
institution that is independent; that it’s supposed to be organizing
elections in this country, then you want to introduce chaotic situation
in this country. And I think that the NPP should stop such an agenda.
It’s not going to help the country. It’s not going to help them as a
political party.”
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