A word to the wise is in Assin North – Prof. Opoku-Agyemang to EC

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) running mate for the 2024 election, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has cautioned the Electoral Commission of Ghana to ensure it delivers a credible and transparent election come December 7, 2024.

Speaking at a ceremony to officially outdoor her on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at the UPSA Auditorium in Accra, she implored the EC to learn from history and commit to ensuring that the electoral process is fair.

“EC, I address you directly: it is in the national interest, and in your own interest, that you make transparent what has been and is going on at your establishment. The truth will not be suppressed. You cannot be so independent as to disregard the people who validate your existence. That does not exist anywhere.

“A word to the wise is in Assin North,” she stated.

Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, a former minister for education and one-time Vice Chancellor for the University of Cape Coast was nominated by former President John Dramani Mahama as his running mate for the 2020 election where the duo failed to clinch power.

Four years down the line, Mr Mahama has once again settled on the educationist maintaining the possibility of her becoming Ghana’s first female vice president.

Her reference to Assin North relates to the NDC's victory in a by-election held by the Electoral Commission in the Assin North Constituency after a court declared the election of James Gyakye Quayson in the 2020 election as null and void.

Mr Quayson who was maintained by the NDC, retained the seat in a landslide victory in the June 2023 by-election.



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