“Voting and buying are so injurious to our nascent democracy that they should not and cannot be accepted as a standard practice in any democratic political culture,” they stressed. The organisations attribute the problem to what they describe as a broken relationship between political leaders and citizens. “In this toxic environment, rules and regulations on vote selling and buying, bribery and treating, count for nothing, as institutions charged with enforcement inevitably become weak and ineffective,” they said. IDEG-CFI maintained that Ghana’s democratic credentials are at stake. See the statement below:NA/VPOFamily announces funeral plans for former Radio Univers boss Alhaji:

Source: GhanaWeb February 18, 2026 00:37 UTC