Chairman of the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) 2016 Campaign Committee on Science, Technology, Innovation & Environment, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has urged President John Mahama to resist any temptations to influence the Electoral Commission (EC) to favour him in the upcoming general elections.
Ghana will on the 7th of December, this year go to the polls to elect a president and 275 parliamentarians and some leading members of the NPP, the largest opposition party, have expressed their apprehensions over the fairness of the EC whose Chairperson, Charlotte Osei was appointed last year by incumbent President, John Mahama.
Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central in the Central Region, Kennedy Agyapong, one of the key NPP people with such apprehensions in June described Madam Osei as an incompetent person who only got the position by trading sex.
Though Ghana is considered as one of the best democracies in Africa, the last election which got John Mahama into power was disputed by the NPP at the Supreme Court for close to nine months over allegations of vote rigging and many are worried that such apprehensions from them especially about the EC chairperson if not nipped in the bud could affect the peace and stability of the country after the elections.
However, speaking on Asempa FM's political talkshow,  Ekosii Sen on Thursday, Prof Frimpong-Boateng stated that, to forestall any such occurrences the EC and the president must strive to ensure a free and fair election.
"We must aim at a rigging free election because anything of that nature won't be accepted", he said, adding that, "if the process is fair and the incumbent wins, the EC should declare them and if the opposition wins, they should be bold enough to do same".
According to him, he would have no problem with the NDC winning if the processes were free and fair but was "optimistic NPP will win the elections looking at the hardships Ghanaians are suffering under President Mahama's government".
"Though there is always the temptation to influence the process, I will plead with President Mahama that he should not be the first civilian president to plunge the nation into chaos", he advised .
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