John Boadu, the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, has reiterated the need for the country to conduct elections in December to elect both a President and Members of Parliament.
In an exclusive interview with Jolly Breakfast Show on Skyy Power FM, he revealed to the host Samuel Kojo Brace that failure to conduct elections this year could create a constitutional crisis for the country.
” The Constitution of the nation that does not make provisions for the extension of a government’s mandate after January 7, 2021. And so it is incumbent on the Electoral Commission to organize elections to forestall the impending constitutional crisis that the nation could be confronted with”.
He dismissed the assertion by persons calling for the postponement of the elections to next year, where persons have cited nations who have either suspended or put on hold their elections. He revealed that those nations’ had certain constitutional provisions that permitted them to undertake such an exercise. But in the case of Ghana, there were no such provisions.
John Boadu further revealed that the failure by the Electoral Commission to organize a new voter registration could disenfranchise almost close to a million voters, a situation he believed could affect the credibility of the elections’ outcome.
In addition, he believed that the Electoral Commission has served notice to observe strictly protocols in its new voter registration exercise, which he stressed was in the right direction.
