The latest salvo in the growing rift within the Electoral Commission (EC) saw the deputy Chairperson of the commission in charge of Corporate Services, Georgina Opoku Amankwah,\u00a0accuse her boss, Charlotte Osei, of being unfit to head the EC.<\/p>\n
“In my view, the chairperson rather lacks the requisite managerial skills in public administration. This needs no elucidation since the current leadership style is publicly evident,\u201d\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Amankwah stated in a 25-point response to the Council of State concerning claims of corruption and recalcitrance made against her.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”wvkqRAvKPVJ8pBMPWL9U1kGTxgjMlbpB”]The deputy EC Chairperson was countering\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Osei\u2019s claims that she lacked the managerial experience or capacity of corporate governances.\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Amankwah touted her experience in the public sector, noting she had chaired the entire Ghana Trade Union Congress, which is made up of different organisations.<\/p>\n
Arguing Mrs. Osei’s incompetence, she recalled that \u201cthe chairperson refused to attend court proceedings of litigation brought on largely by her arrogant posture and inexperienced electoral administration skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mrs.\u00a0Amankwah’s accounts indicated a long-standing\u00a0friction within the commission, with an assertion that\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Osei \u201chas lost favour with the staff. This has compounded her disaffection with the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
She further described\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Osei as having an \u201cunbridled desire to wield power and control around herself, making commission decision less important and binding than hers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding to Mrs.\u00a0Osei\u2019s claims that she did not follow instructions, Mrs.\u00a0Amankwah acknowledged the\u00a0seeming\u00a0rift between her and\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Osei, noting that \u201cfor reasons best known to herself, I am the last person she would want to deal with in her scheme of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘Charlotte Osei wanted us out of the loop’<\/strong><\/p>\n Mrs.\u00a0Amankwah revealed that\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0Osei was known to convene meetings without the knowledge of her two deputies and that “on various occasions, she pathetically did so through the Director Human Resources or Director Administration without recourse to either of the deputies. Her arrogant position became more manifest after the other commission members drew her attention to the anomaly but still insisted.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Chairperson upon realising that her dictatorial tendencies did not resonate with a majority of the commission members avoided the convening of\u00a0Commission\u00a0meetings and rather resorted to the use of directors at the blindside of their immediate bosses (the two deputies). She then became evasive and not interested in commission meetings,\u201d Mrs. Amakwah also noted in her statement.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest salvo in the growing rift within the Electoral Commission (EC) saw the deputy Chairperson of the commission in charge of Corporate Services, Georgina Opoku Amankwah,\u00a0accuse her boss, Charlotte Osei, of being unfit to head the EC. “In my view, the chairperson rather lacks the requisite managerial skills in public administration. This needs no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[9600,3],"yoast_head":"\n