Madam Jean Mensah’s continuous stay in the commission constitutes a threat to free, fair and credible election in 2020 given her relationship with President Akufo Addo who is a major contender and the NPP as an organization.
The President has militarised our electoral process. We saw how security equipment including sophisticated weapons, knives, shockers was rolled out at Ayawase West Wuogon to prevent the opposition from voting. Citizens including sitting MPs, officials of the NDC, party agents and supporters were freely manhandled, arrested, beaten, shot and subjugated by masked NPP hoodlums and invincible force operatives. Before the boycott, the NDC was contesting with the invincible forces, those fake national security operatives and the police.
President Akufo Addo has compromised our police and national security. The country has been turned into a police state and there is fear everywhere.
The Electoral Commission has been annexed by the Akufo Addo presidency. This is the reason it has not been able to conduct any credible election since they present commissioners took over. Ghanaians, the political parties, civil society organizations, election monitoring groups and international election monitoring organizations have lost confidence in the electoral commission and do not believe that the EC as presently constituted can guarantee credible 2020 election.
Our investigation reveals President Akufo Addo was plotting to create artificial tension in some strongholds of the NDC and dispatch their invincible forces and other vigilante groups to these areas as peacekeepers. President Akufo Addo is plotting to use the exercise to intimidate voters in these areas and rig the 2020 election. Part of the plot is to use the fake peacekeeping operation in those selected NDC strongholds as a subterfuge to unleash a heavy security presence to intimidate, harass, and instill fear in voters in the NDC’s strongholds and pave the way for the allocation of fictitious votes to President Akufo Addo and the NPP.
Further investigation revealed that agents of Akufo Addo presidency are working in close collaboration with some compromised top officials of the EC to use members of NPP vigilante groups to provide cover for the diversion of electoral materials as well as aiding NPP agents in their plan to unleash violence and disrupt the electoral process in areas where the NDC is winning. With the activities of our security agencies especially the police in recent times, there is a threat to the nation’s democracy ahead of the 2020 polls.
President Akufo Addo is not preparing for elections. He is prepared for the rigors of any electoral exercise. He knows he has failed his supporters and definitely going to lose the 2020 election so has resorted to use of these primitive moves to rig the election.
