Editorial
Enact law to scrape by-elections
Dear Editor,
I believe the nation stands to gain more than lose if collectively we decide to cancel entirely any by-election when it happens just before the next general elections.
This tough but decisive decision will be to our benefit considering the funds to save.
We should make it a law to allow the candidate that came second in the party’s primaries to fill in when a vacuum is created.
This should not be a headache for Ghana the way and manner our politics is, knowing the stronghold of all the parties. In places where it swings every year, a way can be found to fix it.
The by-elections have proven to be too expensive financially.
It saddens me when the state through the Electoral Commission (EC) mobilise financial and human resources to organise another election which most times goes in favour of the group that occupied the seat.
This move will also ease tensions and tempers that characterizes every election in the area.
Victor A. Buxton, Tema