President-elect John Dramani Mahama will be inviting disaster if he removes the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Adukwei Mensa, according to former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei.
According to Prof. Adei, any such action by the new president, including the removal of the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, will be a consolidation of a bad practice for which Ghanaians will pay.
“It will be disastrous; he will be consolidating a very bad practice which will not augur well for Ghana’s future, whereby every president basically appoints a new EC. We must find a way not to destroy our institutions,” he stated on TV3’s Hot Issues on Sunday, December 22, 2024.
Ahead of John Mahama’s inauguration on January 7, 2024, some critics have called for the new president to dismiss the EC Chairperson and the Chief Justice from office.
This call largely emanates from supporters of the National Democratic Congress, who have been accusing Madam Jean Mensa and Justice Torkornoo of incompetence.
Joyce Bawa Mogtari, a spokesperson for former President Mahama, recently called for Jean Mensa’s resignation, citing partisanship, lack of credibility, and lack of integrity on the part of the EC boss.
