Ablekuma North parliamentary dispute exposes EC’s rigging plot — Solomon Owusu

A senior communicator for the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, has alleged that the unresolved parliamentary dispute in Ablekuma North is evidence of a plot by the Electoral Commission (EC) to rig the 2024 elections.

He claimed the Jean Mensa-led EC had employed various strategies to manipulate the electoral process, but vigilance by Ghanaians thwarted those efforts.

“There is little an EC officer can do if citizens are vigilant. They had all the strategies to rig the 2024 elections, targeting from all aspects. Otherwise, we wouldn’t still have the issue with Ablekuma North unresolved after seven months,” Owusu said in an interview with Accra-based 3FM on Thursday, July 3.

The Movement for Change stalwart also described the EC as incompetent and called for sweeping reforms to restore public trust in line with President John Dramani Mahama’s reset agenda.

He argued that only a reset of the election management, backed by competent and independent leadership, could safeguard the country's democracy.

“The Electoral Commission has been a body that is not competent, and it needs a lot of reforms, a lot of resetting in that direction. If we are resetting, let’s go for competence and appoint someone who will not do the government’s bidding,” he stated.

He buttressed his point by citing anomalies in the voters’ register ahead of the 2024 elections, including unlawful voter transfers, as proof of the Commission’s failings.