The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, has criticized the media for ignoring relevant reforms the commission has rolled out to ensure the success of this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n
She said the media reports with \u201cglee\u201d spurious allegations about how the EC and its Chair intend to rig the election.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”22bBvj9D7jc1xzokqbIDu6YFr0ICLDlG”]\u201cThere has been no publication in the media seriously examining the more than 20 reforms which the electoral commission is implementing in this year\u2019s election cycle and their consequences on the elections. We have not seen a single report on how the results can actually be compromised or manipulated from an operational perspective; which will now require that the media will call on the EC to resolve those operational gaps that they have identified.\u201d<\/p>\n
She made the comments at a workshop organised by\u00a0the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping training Centre.<\/p>\n
The theme for the workshop was: \u201cTowards a peaceful elections: Reporting on elections and security in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c…Yet every day, we are inundated with spurious reports in the media of how the EC and the chair of the EC as a person are rigging the election; and these comments are reported with extreme speed and glee and it\u2019s just amazing to us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Osei added that\u00a0\u201ca discredited EC is a recipe for disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Source: Ghana Decides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, has criticized the media for ignoring relevant reforms the commission has rolled out to ensure the success of this year\u2019s election. She said the media reports with \u201cglee\u201d spurious allegations about how the EC and its Chair intend to rig the election. [contextly_sidebar id=”22bBvj9D7jc1xzokqbIDu6YFr0ICLDlG”]\u201cThere has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":209759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2647,2648,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}