Joyce Bawah Mogtari, the Special Aide to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader and president-elect John Dramani Mahama, has blamed the 2024 post-election violence on the ineptitude and delay of the Electoral Commission (EC) and its head, Mrs Jean Mensa.

She wondered why after the Saturday, December 7 elections, and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia's concession of defeat to the NDC and Mahama, the EC delayed to declare the election results and pronounce Mahama victorious.

She argued the Monday evening declaration was reckless in view of "a lot of impatient people out there".

She lamented "the cost of ballot sheets destroyed, burnt – because of elementary mistakes" by the EC.

Time and time again, the lawyer said, the EC and its boss had demonstrated they were bias against the main opposition NDC and its leader.

For this, Madam Mogtari argued the EC had not lived up to its mandate of integrity and fairness, and, thus, "needs a complete reform".

She noted this was not just her personal opinion.

"When the will of the people is up against you, there's nothing you can do," she said, adding, also: "You've heard today many civil society organisations condemning the EC."

Madam Mogtari told Channel One TV's Umaru Sanda she thought, rather than be sacked, "the EC Chairperson would resign yesterday. 

"They've been incompetent, to say the least. 

"They are too many partisans there, all the arm-twisting."

The EC has lamented its offices being beseiged by party supporters, and its staff being abused, greatly impacting the timing of its declarations.

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