‘EC under pressure to remove PPP’

PROGRESSIVE People’s Party (PPP) has revealed that the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to file a writ at the Supreme Court (SC) to overturn a High Court’s ruling which went in its favour has confirmed its long held belief that there is a hidden hand pushing the EC to ensure PPP’s exit from the December 7 polls.

According to the party, the electoral management’s “shameful manoeuvrings” were being orchestrated by their opponents, who are uncomfortable with the sharp growth of the PPP.

Addressing the media at the party’s headquarters yesterday in Accra, National Chairman of the party, Nii-Allotey Brew-Hammond, explained that “the inroads the party has made, coupled with the support it is gaining on daily basis, the deep positive impacts on the lives of many Ghanaians in all districts in Ghana undoubtedly see an obvious PPP-led victory come January, 7, 2017.”

He wondered why the EC gave the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) the opportunity to amend their errors, but denied the PPP same opportunity.

“For example, in the case of the All People’s Congress (APC), the EC claimed, it pointed out 30 mistakes for them to alter. So we ask, why this blatant display of selective injustice being orchestrated by the Commissioner and its members?

…Do we take this to mean we are in George Orwell’s Animal Farm? Where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”? Do not let us forget that injustice is not only cruel, but it is economical waste,” he opined.

The PPP national chairman also expressed his party’s displeasure over the way some group of people want to turn Ghana into a two-party state.

That, he said, was as a result of what some politicians have said including a former Minister of State in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, who was alleged to have asked the electorate in the Central Region not to vote for any smaller party.

According to him, the NPP man was reported to have said, “only two parties are destined to rule Ghana, the NPP and the NDC so the choice you have is for any of these two parties.”

This “anaemic “thinking, Mr Brew-Hammond noted, gives credence to the disappointment many Ghanaians have about the Fourth (4th) Republic.

“Our democratic experience is still in its infancy and the winner-takes-all 1992 Constitution hands all power to the party in power. The arrogance of state institutions is clearly evident and is a present danger,” he cautioned.

However, he said change of the fundamental type was needed, including important changes to the constitution to make the country’s democracy something positive for the citizenry.

“Ghana needs a strong, credible, third force to push for the change we need,” Mr. Brew-Hammond pointed out,” Nii-Allottey Brew-Hammond averred.

Source: Todaygh.com