The Very Rev. Solomon Bruce, Superintendent Minister in-charge of the Old Tafo Wesley Methodist Church in the Tafo Municipality of the Ashanti Region says, looking at the gravity of the Covid-19 cases in Ghana, this year’s general elections should be postponed to enable the President and his team to effectively manage the pandemic.
According to him, the electoral process, which also involves canvassing for votes, could lead to a further spread of the disease. To him, therefore, the election should be postponed to next year, by which time the situation would have been well managed.
Speaking in an interview with The Chronicle, he argued that the constitution itself must be reviewed for the presidential term to be extended to six or seven years instead of the current four years, which is not helping the course of development in the country.
He indicated that the first two years of every government is used for a “thank you tour” with only two years reserved for serious government business, which is still not enough, because the fourth year is used for campaign purposes.
Very Rev. Solomon Bruce insisted that elections every four years is costing the nation a lot at the expense of infrastructural deficit that must be narrowed.
He contended that the Electoral Commission appears more powerful than the Supreme Court, because of elections that are held every four years.
The Methodist Clergy wondered why both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would be fighting over the voter register that brought all of them to power.
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