NDC will deploy more educated personnel to monitor next elections - Mahama

The 2020 presidential candidate of the opposition NDC, John Dramani Mahama says the party will adopt newer measures to ensure the quality of the future elections in Ghana.

As such, the former President said, the NDC will deploy professionals and more educated personnel to monitor the 2024 elections at various levels.

He believes a lot more expertise is required in many parts of the electoral process such as the collation of election results, to allow the party properly monitor and ensure the process is free and fair.

Speaking at the party’s Professional Forum Annual Conference in Accra, Mr. Mahama called on members of the forum to make themselves available for the 2024 general elections.

“We must ensure that we have more professionals and more educated people coming into play in respect of policing and monitoring the elections at the grassroots level. Collation of results is an important activity that the expertise that you people carry can help in terms of collating the party’s results in good time and also transmitting the result as most of you do in your professional work with information technology.” he said as quoted by citinewsroom.

Mr. Mahama took on the Electoral Commission (EC) and its chairperson, Madam Jean Mensa for what he described as “voter fraud and irregularities” in the 2020 polls.

Among other things, John Mahama expressed regret that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, did not testify in court, when he filed an election petition.

According to Mahama, that singular act of Jean Mensa not testifying in court is a betrayal of the principles of transparency and accountability to Ghanaians.