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Deputy General Secretary of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor has pleaded with the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Jean Mensa not to destroy the country’s peace and well nurtured democracy.

Describing Madam Jean Mensa as an obstinate to the accepted procedure of organizing the Inter-Party Committee (IPAC) meeting, the NDC Deputy Chief Scribe asserted that she has created doubts and suspicions in the operations of the Electoral Commission which might foment chaos in the upcoming general elections.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Peter Boamah Otokunor bemoaned that the behaviour of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission is undermining the well nurtured democratic dispensation for all the political parties in elections.

“Let us tell Jean Mensa that we have only one country. She is not the first person to Chair the Electoral Commission. She should not do something which will disrupt and destroy the democracy which we have worked very hard to nurture to this point where it is getting stronger,” he warned.

“What she is doing will not help the course of our democratic dispensation, the peace and progress of the country especially as we find ourselves in the election year,” he added.

His concern is borne out of the fact that the Electoral Commission (EC) has segmented the IPAC meeting into morning and afternoon sessions where all the political parties have been divided into two for a meeting which should have housed all the political parties.

He stressed that the new directive of the Electoral Commission (EC) to divide the political parties for the same meeting is alien to the longstanding procedure which the predecessors of Madam Jean Mensa had done even though the new directive has become the alternative due to the COVID-19.

Peter Boamah Otokunor has maintained that his party will not risk their lives to attend the meeting in a ‘small room’ in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, in spite of the fact that the meeting will be held in sessions to have few political parties representatives in the meeting.