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It looks as if President John Dramani Mahama reposes much confidence in Nigeria’s electoral commission more than he has in Ghana’s electoral commission. It is possible that such an outlook and posture have been shaped by the results of the 2020 General elections in which election results on the part of his NDC Party MPs placed the party almost at par with the majority side in parliament.
President Mahama cannot be faulted much if he had assumed that the fortunes his MPs had chalked in the General elections should have had a parallel reflection in his votes to win the election hence the reason to challenge the election results in the Supreme Court in 2021.
In a post on his Facebook wall sighted by afropolitanonline.com, President Mahama hinted :
“One thing that has struck me in my pre-election mission in Nigeria for the West African Elders Forum (WAEF) is the confidence all the candidates and parties have expressed in the Independent Electoral Commission. They all testify that INEC has listened and taken their concerns on board”.
He further contended: “Unfortunately, I can’t say same for my Electoral Commission (EC), which was once among the best election management agencies in the world. The hostility of the Chairperson of the EC and her other Commissioners to one political party is legendary. How I wish our own EC can inspire the same level of confidence in all its stakeholders. Regrettably, I am not hopeful this will happen when we have an EC that has blatantly spurned all efforts by the National Peace Council to host a meeting between the Commission and the two major political parties, the NDC and NPP”
However, politicians have been known to trust in institutions when they are in office and repulse the same institutions when they leave office. It would not be wrong to assume that President Mahama views the electoral commission whose work saw him elected in the 2016 General elections as being biased towards the current government.
President Mahama is in Nigeria as part of an observer mission in the upcoming General elections on 25th February 2023.
Jeffery Jones.
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