Direct your anger at EC – PNC tells Mahama

The Peoples National Convention, PNC, has chided President John Mahama over his comments on a new logo yet to be launched by the Electoral Commission, although it is being used on its official documents.

The Commission has come under fire for the new logo which critics say is unnecessary especially when it has other pressing matters to deal with ahead of the elections this November.

The President on Monday suggested that the debate over the new logo is putting undue pressure on the commission, urging critics to allow the commission to do its work.

“Some parties have made it a penchant to continuously attack the Electoral Commission for reasons I can’t understand. This is the time to give the EC peace to do its work …I mean how is a logo going to affect the quality of elections in this country? I don’t think it’s a discourse that we should be splitting heads on. I think that our Electoral process has inherent safeguards in it that any serious political party can ensure that it polices that election and ensure the integrity of the election.”

But speaking to Citi News, the General Secretary of the PNC, Atik Mohammed, said the President should rather blame the EC for creating the controversy.

“The President’s call was rather misdirected. As a matter of fact, he should have been directing that same call to the Electoral Commission because it is they who are creating this situation and inviting everybody else to talk about it. If they themselves had decided to concentrate so much on the conduct of the election, I’m not sure the creation and launching of a new logo would have been a problem for them. But they appear to be very much interested in doing those things that would rather create controversy.”

“…So we cannot stop talking about it because we feel that there are a lot of things the Electoral Commission should be doing which it is not doing so if the President is asking us not to talk about it, he might as well tell the Electoral Commission to stop creating these controversies,” he added.

The logo controversy

The EC last week announced that it will soon launch a new logo in its bid to re-brand.

The new logo, a blue rounded crest with patches of white, yellow, red and green, has been described by critics as childish and inappropriate.

The critics were of the view the logo does not reflect the work of the commission and that the current one rather communicates better what the commission stands for.

The current Logo has a black star in between two eagles at both sides of a shield, with a hand in the middle casting a ballot, which gives one an idea of what the Commission does. It also has the inscription ‘Transparency, Fairness, Integrity. The new one however has none of these features.

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