"Akufo-Addo won’t overstay as Ghana’s President if EC fails to Conduct 2020 Election" – Majority Leader
According to the Majority leader, President Akufo-Addo himself has reiterated his commitment to not overstay his constitutional mandate.
Jonas Danquah 
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will not stay a day beyond the constitutional mandate given to him as president of Ghana if the Electoral Commission (EC) fails to conduct the 2020 general elections due to the covid-19 outbreak.
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who stated this, said the President had himself expressed on different occasions, such commitment to end his term in office by midnight of January 6, 2021.
“The President does not intend to stay one day beyond the constitutional mandate given to him up to the midnight of January 6, 2020 and has strongly urged that whatever must be done in the current circumstances must be done,” he said.
Addressing Parliament, Mr Kyei–Mensah-Bonsu expressed the belief that the EC would come to brief the House or the Special Budget Committee on their state of preparedness for this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
“We hope to God that the situation in the country will not deteriorate or degenerate and we hope to God that we shall witness some improvement in the system,” he said.
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He said this in response to concerns raised by the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu to summon the EC to the House to spell out its preparedness level towards the upcoming elections.
He said that the Constitution provided that presidential and parliamentary elections should be held this year even as the country struggled with COVID-19.
“The independent EC, created under Article 45 of the Constitution, owes members of this House and Ghanaians a duty, hence they must be summoned to appear before the House to give their roadmap as to their preparedness in view of COVID-19.
“Our democracy has evolved and our democracy will survive COVID-19,” he said, saying that “if we cannot get them to come and brief the Committee of the Whole at least they must come to the Special Budget Committee,” he said.
