The founder
and leader of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), Kofi Akpaloo has alluded that
former President John Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) and the party have no message for the electorate towards the 2020
elections.
According to him, due to their lack of message,
the former president and the NDC have resorted to attacking the personality of
some of the commissioners of the Electoral Commission (EC), especially the
Chairperson, Jean Mensa.
The former president had bemoaned the posturing
of Mrs Mensa did not indicate that she will be neutral in the 2020 polls since
she had acted in ways that suggest representatives of the political parties are
a disturbance to the Elections Management Body (EMB), a situation he described as
unfortunate.
“They need to prove us wrong, we have our doubts
that they can be neutral and fair because the current posture and the way they
are conducting things makes us doubt that they will be neutral, transparent,
free and fair in the 2020 general election.
“The EC
is not a secret society, it is not somebody’s private closet that needs to be
shut so we do not know what is going on there. They should open all the processes.
When the EC starts behaving like the representatives of political parties are a
nuisance, it affects the trust and confidence the citizenry have in them, a
neutral arbiter. Her posture doesn’t give confidence that she is going to be
neutral in matters,” former President Mahama lamented.
However, Mr Akpaloo asserted that, “John Mahama
has not changed from the way he did things ahead of the 2016 elections, in 2016,
he had no message and he resorted to attacking other people’s messages, going into
2020, he has no message and he has turned his guns on the EC.
“If you have followed the trend, there is no way the Electoral Commissioners can rig elections, elections are won at the polling stations, somebody promised Free SHS and he is doing it, what policy do you also have for Ghanaians? Mahama has no message,” Mr Akpaloo stressed.
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