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Pres Kufuor urges EC to win public trust ahead of elections 2016

Former President John Kufuor
Former President John Kufuor
Some of the Electoral Commission’s decisions have attracted stiff criticism from the opposition New Patriotic Party and a section of Ghanaians.
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Former President, John Agyekum Kufour has urged the Electoral Commission to take steps to redeem the trust of Ghanaians in the institution before the general elections in  2016.

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The PNC’s Abu Ramadan, for example, sued the EC for allowing NHIS card holders to register as voters, which led to the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday July 5, ordering the EC to delete from the voters’ register 56,000 names of persons who registered with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards ahead of the 2012 elections.

Addressing the performance of the Electoral Commission under the new Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, the former president said,

“Since we are a human society, the human factor seems to be unpredictable sometimes so the arbiter, who oversees the orderliness and fairness of the process which is the electoral commission should be truly committed to the people and serve its role in such a way that across the board we would feel it’s been truly impartial and transparent.”

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He spoke on GHOne’s State of Affairs.

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