consult widely<\/strong><\/a><\/span> before the appointing a new Chairman of the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\nAddressing students at University of Cape Coast (UCC), Nana Akufo-Addo stated that the appointment of the new Electoral Commission boss requires vigorous consultation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn many many other jurisdictions across the world, whoever successfully emerges as the Head of the Electoral Commission is put through a rigorous selection procedure which includes wide stakeholder consultation, vetted by a committee often in public and finally approval by a special majority\u2026I will respectively urge the President to abide by the constitution and allow the council of state to do its work openly and transparently,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
The Minority Spokesperson on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Joe Osei Owusu earlier made similar calls.<\/p>\n
In backing calls for greater transparency in naming a new EC boss, Joe Osei Owusu who is also the Member of Parliament for Bekwai earlier said both the President and the Council of State will serve Ghana\u2019s democracy very well if they open the process to carry along all stakeholders.<\/p>\n
The head of the United Nations Office for West Africa UNOWA, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas however disagrees, Dr Chambas insist the appointing authority should just go by the dictates of the constitution and not complicate the process by heeding to calls for broader consultations.<\/p>\n
But the former Supreme Court judge in an exclusive interview with Citi News\u2019 Raymond Acquah maintains there is nothing wrong with calls for consultations \u201canybody who says that there should be wide consultations is right and just echoing something which behind the scenes happens in any democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
He however believes that \u201cit is the responsibility of the council of state to do the consultation\u201d and then present a rank ordered list to the President. The man who set-up the electoral commission in 1968 also stated that the establishing consensus with all the stakeholders is critical to the conduct of successful elections in 2016. \u201cWhat I want to emphasize is the consensus aspect of these appointments.\u201d<\/p>\n
–<\/strong><\/p>\nBy: \u00a0Raymond Acquah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
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