News:
September 8, 2013
Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy hene Agyepong ohas said political parties; especially the New Patriotic Party (NPP) honouring the Electoral Commission invitation to draw up electoral reforms to guide future elections is a total waste of time and unnecessary.
He has counselled his party (NPP) not to waste its time formulating any reforms as 2016 general election will be free for all election with only the fittest surviving in that electoral exercise, since per the Supreme Court recent dismissal of the election petition, it sought to see nothing wrong with the petition filed by the NPP.
The EC, in a letter dated September 5, 2012, observed that political parties were its “principal stakeholders” and urged them to submit the proposals before the end of November this year.
“The commission will, therefore, appreciate that each registered political party indicates what it considers to be the needed reforms in our electoral system. Any recommendations made must be within the context of our existing electoral laws and system,” it said.
The parties have accepted the challenge and given indications that they are ready to contribute to strengthen the electoral system
Speaking on Accra based Oman FM’s National Agenda show on Monday, the firebrand politician Kennedy Agyepong wondered the need for the electoral reforms, adding that ‘’why do you fix something when that thing is not broken ‘’.
‘’Jake and the rest shoul not pretend they are the only gentlemen and hurriedly give inputs into the so called electoral reforms, in spite of all the clear infractions of the voting process that was admitted by Dr. Afari Gyan himself in court in the full glare of all, the Supreme Court says all is ok, 2016 elections will be very interesting, it would be only about how one secures the votes and not whether the electoral process was followed’’ he added.
Hon. Ken Agyepong further stated that he was not surprised that the Supreme Court upheld President John Mahama as the validly elected President as African Judges and to a large extent Ghanaian Judges lack the courage and would have found it extremely difficult to as a serving president to step down.
‘’ Talk to some of the young politicians in the party that I spoke to, even though I was confident that we had a good case, I knew the Supreme Court could not have told Mahama to step down, they just lack the balls to say or do so’’ he stressed.
Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh