She should resign – Mahama’s spokesperson calls for Jean Mensa’s head

Joyce Bawah Mogtari, the Spokesperson for John Dramani Mahama, has called for the resignation of the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Jean Mensa.

Speaking in an interview with Channel One Television, and monitored by GhanaWeb, the spokesperson for the president-elect said she was expecting the EC Chairperson to have announced her resignation following the conclusion of the 2024 general election.

According to her, Jean Mensa’s leadership of the Commission has been characterised by partisanship, lack of integrity, and low credibility.

"I was thinking that the EC chairperson was going to resign yesterday. Look, my brother, they’ve been incompetent, to say the least. There’s been too many partisans there, the arm twisting. When the will of the people is up against you, there is nothing you can do.

“One of the reasons we have these pockets of violence is because it took too long for the EC to declare the results. They counted the presidential, and by the time we all went to bed, we knew, the main vanquish had actually thrown in the towel. What were they [EC] waiting for?

"Look at the cost of the ballot sheets that have been destroyed, burnt because of mistakes; elementary mistakes. Thank God for our technical team, they did a yeoman's job to put the EC in check,” she stated.

Asked if the commissioner should resign, Joyce Bawah responded in the affirmative.

"I think that she should have. In her place, I would have [resigned]. Like she said, it is finished. It should be finished for her [Jean] as well," she said.

The opposition National Democratic Congress claimed overwhelming victory in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Joyce Bawah expressed hope that reforms at the EC, including the removal of the chairperson, will form an integral part of a constitutional amendment process to be undertaken by the incoming government.

“If there were elementary breaches, then she has no business being there, if you ask me. I personally think, from a very professional perspective, that everything to do with the EC needs a complete reform and hopefully it will form part of the constitutional amendment process John Mahama will undertake.

“We ought to reset the EC and delete all the partisans who are in there. And she [Jean] herself has displayed enormous prejudice and bias towards the NDC. She should go, and I think she ought to respect herself and leave,” she added.

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Watch EC Chairperson's declaration of John Mahama as the winner of the 2024 presidential election below: