Even though the next general elections in Ghana is some 42months away, tacticians of the governing New Patriotic Party are mapping out strategies on how to extend the party’s stay in power beyond the 2020 elections through manipulation and implementation of the Representation of Peoples Act (ROPA), The aL-hAJJ can authoritatively report.
Sensing Ghanaians are so early getting disappointed and fed-up, and are therefore likely to vote out the NPP in 2020, the ruling party, this paper has gathered, have concluded that the surest way to secure a second term is to skew the election in its favour.
Party insiders have disclosed to The aL-hAJJ that the recently inaugurated 10 member committee by the party to provide a road map for the prosecution of the 2020 elections has recommended that, “every effort must be made towards the removal of the Electoral Commissioner, Madam Charlotte Osei, from office before the next elections”.
According to a source “Charlotte has been marked out as a possible impediment in the NPP’s quest to win the 2020 election. She will block any attempt by the NPP to rig the election. She will also prove difficult if we want to push for the implementation of ROPA…and because of this; they are planning to get rid of her from that office.”
According to the source; “Winning 2020 election will not be an easy task so we are fervently preparing for that. And one of the ways to make our win easy in 2020 is to push for the implementation of ROPA. With that, the election results can easily be manipulated…but rigging election itself is also not an easy task because some of the guys working at EC must be in support of it. And, considering how the NPP vilified Charlotte and even attempted to use the courts to block her appointment, she may not support any move to implement ROPA when she is not convinced that the implementation will not compromise the election results”.
Another source privy to the NPP’s schemes told this paper that “one of the ways to chase out Charlotte is to create an imaginary “crisis-situation” at the EC by pitching her against some of her colleague Commissioners… and I think we are making headway in that direction, as recent media reports suggest uneasy calm at EC… we are hoping it will lead to her exit.”
Last week, an NPP tabloid owned by President Akufo-Addo’s family, the New Statesman, reported on its front-page that the EC boss and two of her deputies are at each other’s throat over the former’s alleged non-involvement of others in decision making.
This accusation against Mrs Osei was strangely confirmed by NPP MP for Akwapim South and Deputy Local Government Minister, Osei Bonsu Amoah who said Parliament may intervene to resolve the impasse.
According to the MP, an obvious faultfinder of Mrs Osei, some officials at EC claim Mrs Osei
unilaterally takes decisions for the workers and ensures that those decisions are enforced.
“Sometimes when you talk to the officials at the EC they tell you that all is not well
