Seasoned Journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has questioned the Electoral Commission's (EC) call on the Police to investigate former President John Mahama's allegations of vote padding during the 2020 Presidential elections.
The former President has scored the EC Chairperson Jean Mensa's performance in the elections an 'F' - to wit the Commission performed poorly.
“2020 was Ghana’s worst election. If I was marking her, I would have given her an F. She is marking her own paper after the examination so she can give herself any mark she likes,” the Ex-President said in an interview as quoted on 3news.com.
He further accused the EC of stuffing 1 million ballots for Nana Akufo-Addo to be re-elected President of the Republic.
“Tell me which election in Ghana was ballot papers printed yet one million ballot papers were found elsewhere...We didn’t witness this under Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan. She [Jean Mensa] knew there was ballot stuffing,” he claimed.
Responding to the claims, the EC, in its 'Let the Citizen Know' series held in Accra, stated; 'The Former President has said the EC thumb printed 1million ballots in favour of the president. This is untrue. This is a grave matter that undermines the credibility of our electoral process and should not be ignored. We call on him to provide evidence to support his claim."
"This is not a matter to be ignored and we call on the Ghana Police Service to investigate this," the Commission demanded.
But to Kwesi Pratt, the Police might not have any business investigating Mr. Mahama.
"Do they validate election results? So, if that is not the case, what is the purpose of this investigation?", he queried.
He argued that "from 2012 up to 2016, President Akufo-Addo insisted that the elections had been rigged but because he doesn't want chaos, he will accept it anyway", therefore asking "how is that different from what President Mahama is saying?"
Mr. Pratt however sought legal interpretations to ''what will happen at this stage if we find out that indeed the elections were rigged?''
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Kwasi Prat, please the EC did not call the police to validate results. They called upon them to investigation the allegation John Mahama is making. If you cannot now understand english, just keep quite and stop defending your pay master.
Yes once again Mr know everything Kwasi Prat has come to defend his paymasters. He will also find fault with others but has no alternative solution. Let us know your view on the alleged 1 million votes padding by Mr Mahama. Do you agree with him or you disagree? You are an investigative journalist so if you agree with him tell us how and at what stage did it occur.
Ooh Kwesi, why? You want everybody to know that your not intelligent after all. When crime occurs who do call, me or police? Eeh Mr. know all but ......
Mr. Kwasi Pratt, don’t let everybody know that you’re not wise.
This Kwasi Pratt is such a disgrace to his chosen profession. What is wrong with the EC calling for Police investigations??? All over the world we see instances of such investigations so only a senseless guy will argue about that.
What is wrong with calling on the police to investigate an allegation? Unintelligent analysis from a so-called senior journalist
Uncle Kwesi everybody know police do not validate elections in Ghana but when the former president allege stealing of one million votes the situation changes to be criminal hence the police. The former president went to court with no proper evidence so what is his problem?