Government won’t overstay its Mandate Using Covid-19 at Excuse – Information Minister
He noted that, government is rather looking for ways and means to organize a free and fair election.
Jonas Danquah 
The Akufo-Addo government has no plans to use the covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to overstay its constitutional mandate without organising a free and fair election, according to the Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah.
He said, in contrast to the allegations, the government is rather interested in “exploring how a country like ours can have safe, free and fair elections.”
“The government does not contemplate any justifiable reason to seek to extend its first term constitutional mandate with the virus as an excuse (without a free and fair election),” he said at the Tuesday (May 12) press briefing in Accra.
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah made these assertions in response to a suggestion that some possible governance arrangement could be appropriate should it become impossible to hold elections in December this year.
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He said if countries such as South Korea held their election around April 15; Mali, March 29 and April 19, while Cote d’ Ivoire, Burundi and Serbia were exploring how to hold their elections, Ghana should also invest its energy in exploring how to do so successfully.
The Electoral Commission (EC) on March 25, 2020, postponed a planned voter's registration until further notice due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, adding that it was going to review the decision at the end of April or early May this year.
The commission had originally fixed April 18, 2020, for the commencement of the compilation of a new voters register.
Oppong Nkrumah noted that, government is still dialoguing with stakeholders on key safety measures to be adopted post-pandemic to ensure the electoral activity is successfully organised.
