The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has called off its planned demonstration against the dismissal of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei and her two deputies.

The action according to the National Organizer of the NDC, Kofi Adams, is to enable them mourn their fellow comrade and former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur who passed away today, Friday in Accra.

“As a party, this morning, we took a decision to call off this assembling that we were going to do this morning and try to fix another date to be able to mourn our departed comrade,” he told the press.

According to a statement signed by Information Minister, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, the decision is based on the recommendations of the Justice Benin Committee set up by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo to investigate a petition for her removal. The Committee concluded that Madam Osei had breached procurement laws blatantly in the award of several contracts prior to election 2016.

The opposition NDC described the dismissal as wrong and have called on the president to reinstate the EC Chair.

The party also threatened to hit the streets to put pressure on government to heed to their call.

“We are not going to leave this matter, we will gather again,” Kofi Adams added.

 

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