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The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, is sending a signal to the National Democratic Congress to brace themselves for another 4years in opposition since the Electoral Commissioner would deliver a verdict that won't go their way.

According to Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, he has been monitoring every move of the NDC and has come to a realization that at any given forum, they use it to attack the Electoral Commission instead of providing an alternative.

Former President John Mahama has expressed reservations about the recently formed EC’s Eminent Persons Advisory Council.

According to him, “The same voice of moral society that we count on when things are going bad are the same people they put on the Eminent Persons Advisory Council.

“How could you be part of the Electoral Commission advising it and at the same time when issues arise that are emotive from the decision of the Electoral Commission [you] come back and [still] be the ones to resolve the issues? I think that, it is better our Christan Council and eminent people sit aside and then when we have a problem, then we come to them,” Mahama said when members of the Christian council paid a courtesy call on him.

But Mr. Antwi-Boasiako in an interview  with Peacefmonline.com noted that when Mr. Mahama had the chance to meet the leadership of the Christian Council, he should have spoken like a statesman and stepped away from "insulting" the EC.

The NPP Chairman popularly known as Chairman Wontumi remarked that "Whether Mahama attacks the EC or not, opposition will be his portion for life. He thinks Ghanaians will entertain him again or what? Mahama is a born loser and nothing can be done about it.

He was a president who came to waste our time and life. He should just continue talking and allowing those small boys in NDC to teach him how to lambast state institutions".

As part of the EC’s new approach of enhancing engagement between the Commission and the Society as the nation prepares for the 2020 General Elections, it has inaugurated 21-member committee chaired by the former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr. Emile Short.

Mr. Short would be assisted by assisted by Mrs Gifty Affenyi Dadzie, a former President of the Ghana Journalists Association, has members such as Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, Archbishop Palmer-Buckle, Dr Eric Oduro Osae, Dr Rose Mensah Kutin, Dr Yaw Baah and Maulvi Mohammed Bin Sali.

The other members are Most Reverend Emmanuel Asante, Mr Affail Monney, Nana Ato Dadzie, Mr Sam Okudjeto, Mr Tony Forson, Mrs Freda Duplan, Nana Kobina Nketsia V and Rev Dr Cyril Fayose.