Election 2024: EC should ‘prepare for a showdown if…’ – NDC Deputy Director of Elections

Dr. Rashid Tanko Computer, the Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked the Electoral Commission (EC) to prepare for “showdown” in the upcoming polls.

But the NDC Deputy Director of Elections thinks the only major election conducted by the Jean Mensa-led administration in 2020 was nothing to write home about, warning that if that’s the Commission’s yardstick, then they should rewrite their scripts.

Speaking with Alfred Ocansey on Ghana Tonight Wednesday, July 17, 2024, Dr. Computer stated that “if Jean Mensa’s understanding of a free and fair election is how they conducted the 2020 elections, then they should prepare for a showdown.”

“We are not going to accept that kind of conduct of election. The 2020 election was one of the most shambolic election that has ever been conducted in this country and so if they are going to use that one as a benchmark to say that we should prepare to accept any type of shambolic election like the 2020, we are not going to accept that kind of election and that one we are very clear on our mind,” he stated.

During the presentation of the Democracy Cup to the EC by the leadership of Parliament in Accra on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa assured of transparent elections and urged political leaders to accept the outcome of the polls.

“Just like the football match we serve as the midwives that birth the elections, we are the referees that conduct, that lay the elections and the processes that lead to the election day itself.

“So as referees we are committed to ensuring that our activities from now in the lead up to the election and all our electoral processes are transparent, they are open, they are fair, and they involve the collaboration of our key stakeholders, that is, the political parties and the citizenry.

“We commit to ensuring transparency in all aspects of our work…We will commit to maintaining and showing that level of transparency across all aspects of our work.

“So, we also want to entreat and call upon the contestants of the election to accept the outcomes of the election. Surely there will be a winner and surely there will be losers,” she stated.

Source:onuaonline.com