Asiedu Nketia calls for the removal of Jean Mensa, other EC officials… rebuke John Mahama-led administration’s continued support for the EC’s leadership
Asiedu Nketia calls for the removal of Jean Mensa, other EC officials… rebuke John Mahama-led administration’s continued support for the EC’s leadership
The National Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, is advocating the removal of the three top leadership of Ghana’s electoral management body, the Electoral Commission (EC).
According to him, the current leadership, headed by Mrs. Jean Adukwei Mensa, is unfit to manage any credible elections in Ghana.
“There has to be a change… The three top leaders must all go. They have managed the commission so badly,” he said.
The NDC National Chairman made the call during an interview on an Accra-based Joy News on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
Mr. Asiedu Nketia, who is known in the political circles as General Mosquito criticised the Commission’s handling of recent electoral matters, particularly the unresolved parliamentary election in Ablekuma North Constituency in the Greater Accra region six months after the election.
The NDC National Chairman described it as symptomatic of deeper institutional failure on the part of the three top commissioners.
“You cannot still be having an election that will go into a stalemate. There is no anticipation of any stalemate in our laws unless people don’t want to do their work well… It’s a clear case of negligence or inability to perform its functions,” he reiterated.
He cited the disenfranchisement of the SALL constituency in the 2020 general elections as the beginning of what he believes has been a consistent pattern of poor performance under the leadership of EC Chairperson Jean Mensa.
Six months on after the election, and we still don’t have an elected MP. That must tell you something is wrong.
This commission, as presently constituted, took over the reins of the Electoral Commission, and they have never done a satisfactory election… First was SALL. A whole constituency went unrepresented for four years. Now, Ablekuma North. And the Ayawaso West by-election? Everything has been messed up,” General Mosquito stated emphatically.
Mr. Asiedu Nketia argued that the EC needs to be fundamentally restructured to meet its constitutional mandate.
“Resetting the EC means bringing it back to an institution that is fit for purpose. The way it is existing now, it is not fit for purpose,” he maintained.
General Mosquito concluded with a stinging rebuke of the current administration’s continued support for the EC’s leadership:
“If in any serious country we want to maintain this type of Electoral Commission, then I don’t know what the country is about,” he enquired.
