Ghana: 'I Don't Need the EC to Help Me Win an Election' - President Akufo-Addo

13 September 2019

"I said it to you before, and I will repeat it. I don't need the Electoral Commission to win an election; I don't want to win an election in Ghana because of the Electoral Commission. I want to win an election in Ghana because of the people of Ghana; that they make a free and open choice that Akufo-Addo will be, again, their choice."

These were the words of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 12th September, 2019, when the Electoral Commission, led by its Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa, paid a courtesy call on him at Jubilee House, the seat of the nation's presidency, as part of a series of consultative meetings being held with stakeholders of the electioneering process.

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