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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked the government to activate the Presidential Transition Process as required by law.
According to the party, the government had not activated the Presidential Transition Process for reasons known to it itself.
Article 6 (1) of the Presidential Transition Law of 2012 (Law 845) establishes: “The Office of the President shall prepare a set of comprehensive transfer notes covering the term of office of the President as executive authority pursuant to Article 58 of the the Constitution”.
Section 6 (4) of the Act also establishes that “the original and five other copies of the delivery notes shall be presented to the General Administrator designated in accordance with section 8 (2) no later than thirty days before the date of the presidential election ”.
The NDC Elections Director, Mr. Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, at a press conference in Accra, said that although “we are 11 days away from the elections, the government did not comply with the law. We also have information that the General Manager has retired, but a new one has not been appointed.
“We call on President Akufo-Addo to activate the transition process by preparing his delivery notes and also appoint a new General Manager to oversee the transition process within 24 hours of the declaration of results.”
He added that “there is no power that can prevent a certain people from removing a bad government.”
Afriyie-Ankrah said that no government has the automatic right to be elected twice and urged the public not to give the government a sense of the right to be elected twice unless they fulfill and keep the promises they made while seeking their vote.
He said that it was obvious that the NPP government had failed the Ghanaians and that nothing could save them from the ire of the Ghanaians on December 7.
The Director of Elections said: “What cannot change is the will of the people expressed through the ballot box and all … it is required that only the will of the people prevail.”
On compliance, he said that the government and the Electoral Commission must ensure compliance with international standards and practices to facilitate peace before, during and after the elections.
“We urge all Ghanaians to be patriotic and courageous in manifesting their number to vote and ensuring that only their sovereign prevails at the end of the elections.
“It is not enough to vote. We must ensure that our vote is protected. We must remain vigilant until the last ballot is counted and the results are declared, ”he said.
