We have no stake in Kenyan election – Gov’t

The Government of Ghana has stressed that it has no intention of interfering in the 2017 Kenyan elections, via Peter Mac Manu, who was prevented from entering the east African country as a leader of a team of election observers from the Democratic Union of Africa.

This dismissal followed murmurs that Mr. Mac Manu, and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), of which he is a member, planned to meddle in the election and support the opposition leader Raila Odinga to create a parallel election tally result platform.

The Democratic Union of Africa is noted as an umbrella body of centre-right parties in Africa which includes some opposition parties in Kenya.

“We wish to make it clear the government of Ghana has no interest whatsoever in who emerges the winner in Tuesday’s poll. The decision as to who leads Kenya for the next four years as President remains the sole preserve of the Kenyan people,” a statement signed by Ghana’s Information Minster Mustapha Hamid said.

“The Ghanaian Constitution guarantees every citizen of Ghana the freedom to participate in political activity inside or outside of the country, within the laws of Ghana or wherever they find themselves. They do so in their own capacity as free citizens of a free state, and not at the behest of the government of Ghana.”

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