Don’t blame EC, it is Bawumia & Akufo-Addo’s fault – Gbande on GHC100k nomination fee for 2024 Prez aspirants

Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Foyo Gbande, has blamed government for the GHC100,000.00 nomination fees for 2024 presidential aspirants which political parties are making a fuss about.

According to him, the Electoral Commission (EC) has maintained the fee it charged aspirants in the previous elections, which ordinarily shouldn’t be so.

He says it was expected that the fees would go up. However, due to the economic hardship in the country, the EC maintained the fee which political parties are still complaining over.

Mr. Gbande says the lamentations over the fees despite the EC’s ‘benevolence’ for not increasing it shows the economic hardship in the country has now hit the political class.

Speaking on the announcement of the fees on TV3’s Ghana Tonight Thursday, August 01, 2024, Foyo Gbande stated that the President and the Vice President’s failure to fix the broken economy is the reason the EC couldn’t increase the fees, whilst political parties are still complaining.

He wants Ghanaians to blame the government and not the Electoral Commission.

“If political parties have to cough 100k and they don’t have it because of the excruciating economic conditions that we face, then you cannot blame the EC. You can lay the blame at the doorstep of the President and the Vice President who are not prepared to be responsible in terms of fixing the economy.

“We all know that the economy has crushed, not by mistake, but because the economy is on autopilot. It is free for all Ghanaians but fight for themselves, but in the right sense, that is not the essence of governance,” the opposition’s Deputy Secretary indicated.

“Government is supposed to save the people from their burdens but today that is not the case and so I’m not surprise that political parties are complaining. It is a manifestation of the hardship that we face, it is manifesting the difficulties that Ghanaians are going through. It just shows that people are depressed, businesses have collapsed,” he indicated.

Source:onuaonline.com