The NPP, which once gave support to, endorsed, and praised Jean Adukwei Mensa, the head of the Electoral Commission, as the best, has now turned against her. During the time of former Ghanaian leader Akufo-Addo, she committed numerous electoral crimes and repeatedly violated the constitution for the benefit of her political party, making her government proud. The EC’s leader, who has been under fire over the Ablekuma North constituency seat, is now an enemy after calling for a new election.
In Ghana, one may fully comprehend the typical personality of the NPP and the people who support that political party without having to study psychology. In addition to being self-centered, conceited, and destructively indifferent, they are politicians who encourage and support criminal activity and will stop at nothing to defend their party members, as long as doing so serves the party’s interests. Why should Jean Mensa, who was backed by the NPP today, lose support because he demanded a new election?
As a staunch member of the NPP, Jean Mensa and his aides, such as Bossman Asare, had no intention of holding a free and fair election in Ghana. She announced the outcome of the 2020 presidential election around four times, and nobody was even certain of the precise number that Akufo-Addo got to be declared the winner. When the public requested the numbers of Akufo-Addo’s triumph, Jean Mensa refused to testify, since, to the NPP, power belongs to them and not the people.
Jean Mensa’s political party supported her chronic violations of the constitution and each electoral crime she committed. She would have declared Bawumia the winner of the 2024 presidential election if it weren’t for the additional security that the opposition put up and the watchfulness of the disgruntled and suffering ordinary Ghanaians, which stopped the NPP’s underhanded attempts to rig the election. Shockingly, the EC chief is at odds with the NPP today, and they want her to resign. Why?
Awurabena Aubynn, the parliamentary candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was proclaimed the winner on December 10 in the Ablekuma North 2024 election at the Electoral Commission Greater Accra Regional Office, after hours of disagreement and confusion regarding missing pink papers. However, later, EC changed its decision with false accusations that they were under oppression by the NDC, which mistakenly led to that decision. Thus, the actual winner was the NPP.
Many Ghanaians rejected the EC’s weak justifications because they knew that the NDC had won many of the NPP’s parliamentary seats and that they intended to employ electoral fraud to take the Ablekuma North seat from the NDC. Till today, political unrest between the NDC and the NPP as well as among the concerned Ghanaians has resulted in the leaving out of the Ablekuma North constituency without a member of parliament. This is seen as incompetence of the office of the Electoral Commission.
The office of the Electoral Commission and the NPP have both rejected the NDC’s repeated calls for a rerun to end the ongoing issues with the Ablekuma North seat. The NPP clearly knows that the NDC will win if the re-election is held ten times, which is why they do not want another one. Jean Mensa has maintained her stance that there would not be a fresh election. Then suddenly, she abruptly changed her mind after the demand for her removal increased among Ghanaians.
Jean Mensa’s sudden change of mind to call for a new election has become too difficult for the NPP to accept. To stop her action and prevent the EC’s Ablekuma North rerun in 19 polling places, the NPP ran to the court. At a news conference in Accra on Thursday, July 3, 2025, the NPP General Secretary Justin Frimpong Kodua said the EC’s change of mind is a blatant disregard for a previous High Court decision that directed the Commission to finish the results collation without the call for a new election.
Is it not surprising that the NPP members are now accusing Jean Mensa of accepting a bribe from the NDC? The truth is that neither the NDC nor the NPP candidate will be declared the winner to have an MP for the Ablekuma North constituency in the absence of a new election. More importantly, Jean Mensa and all other members of the Electoral Commission should be sacked after the re-election, regardless of how long it takes, because they pose a danger to Ghana’s democracy.
