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The founder of the Atta Mills Institute (AMI), Mr. Koku Anyidoho, says that the outcome of the 2020 Elections was indicative that the Electoral Commission (EC) “has done a fantastic job.”
“Congratulations to Jean Mensa and the Electoral Commission, [Dr] Serebour Quaicoo, [Samuel] Tettey and [Dr] Bossman Asare, Sylvia Annor and the others. They have done a fantastic job, “Anyidoho said. in a radio interview in Accra based Ekosii Sen by Asempa FM political talk program on Thursday afternoon [December 10, 2020], which was monitored by Online graph.
He said that the EC was not thought to work perfectly and that it was going to fail.
Anyidoho referenced the new biometric machines acquired by the EC for the exercise, and said that the EC was accused of deliberately purchasing and programming the machines to favor a particular candidate.
However, we all went to vote and the machine would say, “verified, verified, verified, verified. It means the machines were not pre-programmed to vote for anyone. So today is 137-137.” [Parliamentary seats], that’s. So I think we have come out of an election that will show us politicians that the electorate can no longer be taken for granted, ”Anyidoho said.
He said a monitoring of the elections by the Atta Mills Institute showed that many people had voted before 3 p.m. on Election Day and that strict COVID-19 protocols were observed in all areas.
He referred to how the EC divided the polling stations as the success of the smooth running of the process without congestion.
“So all the propaganda, what you are saying” referring to the projections of various media outlets, and how the elections were covered by the media juxtaposed to what the EC stated, Anyidoho said that “insightful minds” are listening and looking.
As an institute, he said that the AMI in the next four years, in its defense of public policies, will push for the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to initiate a program of continuing public education from January 2021 to December 2024 on the elections.
He said this in reference to the number of rejected votes that were registered in the elections and said that some districts registered more than 1000 rejected votes. “There is a lot of work to do in terms of educating the voter,” he added.
“But as it is now, the EC has done a fantastic job, Jean [Mensa – EC Chairperson] And the team has done a fantastic job, the media, I think on average you have done a very good job. There was not too much sensationalism “from the media, he said.
“There was no time for unnecessary propaganda, even at the time when his [media] the machines were telling him, “at the screenings,” that they were simply telling the audience what they had gathered, they weren’t making any statement. And then I think, Ghana’s democracy is going to grow for the better, this eighth Parliament. “
On the equity scale, Anyidoho said that since 1992 all the elected presidents and political parties have obtained two consecutive terms, so it has been balanced.
“2024 will be the time of redefinition, and that is where I think all political parties” will have to rethink the strategy.
He said the PNP has to, at this point, “pamper” the independent candidate from the Fomena constituency, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, who won the elections after the party fired him for deciding to run as an independent candidate.
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