EC is ill-prepared for election 2012 – Abu Sakara

Dr. Abu Sakara, the Presidential Candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has stated that the Electoral Commission is ill-prepared and cannot conduct successful elections without disenfranchising a section of Ghanaians.

According to him, if challenges were identified in simple nomination process, then the elections will be fraught with many difficulties. Dr. Sakara’s nomination forms were nearly rejected by the EC last week because the details of two of his nominees were not captured in the EC’s data base.


Speaking on an Accra based radio station Dr. Sakara said: “When you have people who have valid voter ID cards and those card numbers are not in the system and the Electoral Commission admitted that much in their statement today which said that they are still reconciling and hope that people won’t be disenfranchised on December 7 because by then they will have all the numbers in the system, what does this mean?”

“This is a statement of self indictment because what you are saying that you were prepared to disenfranchise the flagbearer based on unfinished work but that card could well be a card that is valid except that it is not yet in the system,” he explained.


The CPP flagbearer urged journalists in the country to improve their power of analysis “to see the picture and the implications of the bigger picture instead of being sensational.”