Central Regional Secretary of New Patriotic Party, Kwamena Duncan has lambasted the Electoral Commission (EC) for disqualifying thirteen Presidential aspirants from contesting this year's elections.
The EC disqualified the candidates for failing to meet all the necessary requirements and so not meeting the criteria for filing as Presidential aspirants.
Only four candidates were passed by the Commission and they are: Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ivor Greenstreet of CPP and independent candidate Jacob Osei Yeboah.
Speaking on Peace FM's Kokrokoo, Kwamena Duncan expressed concerns that the current EC administration is surrounded by too many controversies.
According to him, the controversies does not augur well and it's an indictment on the Commission.
Kwamena noted that the treatment meted out to the disqualified candidates by the Commission is unfair, because to him, the Commission could have allowed for rectifications to be done before taken such "harsh" decisions against them.
He feared the EC's decision may have some future ramifications for the country as it is the first to have taken such decision against Presidential aspirants.
Comparing the incumbent Commissioner to her predecessors, Kwamena Duncan stressed that he "shudders" for the Commission because "the danger there is in this; that in the future, if we leave this to stand, we can have an Electoral Commission that could be mischievous…We have had elections for six good times. This is the seventh one. That this mass disqualification; was it that they (aspirants) were not doing it well or they (electoral body) were not checking it in the past and that all of a sudden the lenses have become so [so, so] detail-specific…If care is not taken, the slippery road on which we find ourselves; into the future, I shudder for it.” |
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