The National Women’s Organizer of the Opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Otiko Djaba has renewed the debate over allegations that Charlotte Osei was appointed the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) after granting sexual favours to the appointing authority.
The allegation, which was first made by the Assin Central NPP MP, Kennedy Agyapong, was widely condemned as an attack on women.
[contextly_sidebar id=”c0LGD7UINwQ2jGlxZkTRVJ3kk3wuzsQU”]But the NPP National Women’s Organizer in a Citi News interview said the claims are worth investigating because the Honorable MP could not have been peddling untruths.
“We need to focus on why he said it because he is not an ordinary person. He is a member of our legislature. He should not be condemned outright but we should find out if there is any merit in what he said or not…For the sake of our country, for the sake of democracy, for the sake of peace and transparency in the election. There is no smoke without fire and this Honorable man will not come and make that statement with no reason.”
Hanna Tetteh, Oye Lithur condemn attacks on Charlotte Osei
There have been several calls on the NPP MP to apologize for the scathing attack on Charlotte Osei.
Foreign Affairs Minister and Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya West Constituency, Hanna Tetteh, as well as the Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Oye Lithur condemned what they called unsubstantiated allegations and sometimes ‘vicious personal attacks’, targeted at the EC Chair.
Charlotte Osei’s beauty enough to re-brand EC – Adu-Asare
A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Adentan Constituency, and now a Presidential staffer, Kojo Adu-Asare, in April 2016, suggested that, the EC does not need any re-branding since the beauty of its chairperson; Charlotte Osei can take care of such issues.
“This new logo is not necessary, Charlotte, your beauty alone is re-branding, but what will give the EC credibility is your ability to conduct a credible election” he added. Mr. Adu-Asare made the comment on Accra based Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme, when the issue about the EC logo came up for discussion.
His comment was deemed by critics as sexist and inappropriate.
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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