The Movement for Change has categorically stated that it will not accept the outcome of the December 7 election if there’s evidence that it was rigged.
This follows the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa urging political parties to accept the outcome of the 2024 general elections.
During the presentation of the Democracy Cup to the EC by the leadership of Parliament in Accra on Wednesday, the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa assured of transparent elections and urged political leaders to accept the outcome of the polls.
“Just like the football match we serve as the midwives that birth the elections, we are the referees that conduct, that lay the elections and the processes that lead to the election day itself.
“So as referees we are committed to ensuring that our activities from now in the lead up to the election and all our electoral processes are transparent, they are open, they are fair, and they involve the collaboration of our key stakeholders, that is, the political parties and the citizenry.”
“We commit to ensuring transparency in all aspects of our work…We will commit to maintaining and showing that level of transparency across all aspects of our work.
“So, we also want to entreat and call upon the contestants of the election to accept the outcomes of the election. Surely there will be a winner and surely there will be losers,” she stated.
But commenting further on the issue in an interview on Ghana Kasa show on Kasapa 102.5FM/Agoo TV Thursday, a leading member of the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu stated that it doesn’t lie in the mouth of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission to tell political parties to accept election results.
“If you organize a free, fair and transparent election who will have the cause to dispute the results. We know that in every election it is either you win or lose. But we will never accept any outcome of an election when it is clear that the Electoral Commission colluded with others to rig it in favour of a particular political party. As for that one, we will never accept that result. If it is the EC’s intention to rig the election that it why they and President Akufo-Addo are preparing the minds of Ghanaians, then they must be very careful.”
He added: “The EC has only one mandate, organize a free, fair and transparent election. If you conduct a bogus election and tell us to accept the outcome of the election we’ll will resist with vehemence and all the power we can marshal”
Source: Kasapafmonline.com
