Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has condemned the circumstances under which Parliament wrote to the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to declare the Kpandai seat vacant.
He says it appears the whole process has been railroaded through to have the EC set Tuesday, December 30 as date for rerun.
“To say the least, I’m very disappointed with what is going on in our country,” Dr Bawumia said in an interview.
“It looks like our institutions of democracy and our tenets of democracy are being undermined.
“The issue of Kpandai with Matthew Nyindam is not a new issue in our democratic politics. We have had issues with Dan Abodakpi, issues with Gyakye Quayson in Assin. Basically, you’ve had the House allow the legal processes to take place and be exhausted before state institutions are subpleaded into acting into ways that undermine democracy.”
The 2024 Presidential Candidate expressed worry how Mr Nyindam could not be given his day in court and to be allowed to exhaust all the processes before the declaration was done.
He described the situation as an ”indecent haste”.
“Matthew Nyindam should be given his day in court. He has filed appeal processes at the High Court. He has filed for a judicial review at the Supreme Court and none of those cases has been adjudicated, so why the rush? Why the indecent haste?
“I think that he is being railroaded. I think that this undermines our institutions of democracy and I think that we should take a halt to these processes and allow him to have his day in court as others have done in the past.
“The House has never really rushed in this way when it came to the other cases. What is the difference with the case of Matthew Nyindam?”