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There were Ghanaians who questioned the neutrality of the person he appointed.” The Commission further denied Mahama’s claims regarding the recruitment of returning officers, stating,“The allegation by former President Mahama that Ministers and DCEs were asked ‘to write the names of party apparatchiks and present them so that they would be appointed as the returning officers’ is not true.” During an interview at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Mahama stated,“You as much as possible want to appoint people who are credible, who are respected, who everybody knows would be neutral.
What was different then is that other Ghanaian political leaders did not use every opportunity they got to demonise and denigrate the Electoral Commission as a result of their reservations about President Mahama’s appointment to the Commission.
The statement said“there were also Ghanaians who equally accused President Mahama at the time of appointing persons with NDC sympathies to the Commission..
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