We do not want to believe that there is a plot to do at the Electoral Commission (EC) what played out in the Judiciary.
We think that this time the President would rescind his decision about extending his reset agenda to the EC.
The previous posturing and campaign season rhetoric point at a plot to do so, but we think that the President could decide not to implement what is in the pipeline.
Decisions can always be rescinded, especially where these do not inure to the public good.
The matters arising from the removal of the Chief Justice are still fresh in our memories; their effects haunting our democracy. Adding another baggage to this would definitely threaten our democracy standing.
Being in his last term, the best thing the President can do for this country is to bequeath to future governments a template worthy of emulating.
President John Mahama could shame those who have concluded that he would definitely carry out what in their estimation is a plot hatched to remove Ms. Jean Mensa and her deputies.
Information reaching us and as contained in one of our stories in this edition is that a staff of the EC has petitioned the President to remove the lady from office because, in his estimation, she has proven not to be efficient in the performance of her duties.
The petitioner is a man who is sulking because of a disciplinary action taken against him; he is on interdiction over suspected theft of EC equipment.
Should such a man get near the President and to boast about such a link?
A precedent of using flimsy pillars to establish prima facie to remove heads of constitutional bodies from office constitute scary threats to our democracy.
We do not want a future where new governments will embark upon the projects of removing from office heads of constitutional bodies such as the EC.
That would constitute one of the outstanding blows to our democracy and would make mockery of the constitutional provision which protects such office holders from ease of removal as being witnessed.
The attention of the world is riveted upon Ghana as the drama over the so-called interdicted EC staffer’s petition unfolds. So far, nothing has emanated from the Presidency but as we stated in a previous paragraph, the President could just ignore this petition.
It would be instructive to find out the record of the petitioner at the EC. Is he on interdiction and for what offence?
It is nothing but a man on a vengeance mission. Our democracy must not be subjected to such pranks.