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Beyond Charlotte Osei’s Lip-Gloss: Uncovering the Lies and Falsehoods of Election 2016
In spite of overwhelming vilification, insults, fabrications and concoctions that included anything available to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) – from his petite stature to the shape of his head and the biological attributes of his immediate family, to allegations of drug use and drug-peddling, to allegations of sexual and violent tendencies – Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been elected the 5th President of the 4th Ghanaian republic. And what a trouncing John Dramani Mahama received at the polls!
Four years ago, 300 thousand votes separated the two in a disputed presidential election, but the astute lawyer, diplomat and patriot shellacked his opponent by an unprecedented one million votes and a couple thousand thrown in for good measure by the Ghanaian electorate.But the 72 hours of the entire voting, collation and declaration process was not without the drama of Charlotte Osei, Chair of the arbitrating Electoral Commission of Ghana. At the end of the entire process, I was left with little doubt that the electoral results did not go the way she envisaged, and my clues, haunches and gut feelings come from nowhere else but her amatory, sassy lip-gloss. Let’s examine the evidence:
- Good Charlotte Lip-gloss
- Bad Charlotte Lip-Gloss

Charlotte Osei, Chair of the EC
3 Comments
maxi.
nice piece and easily readable. good work my brov.
JayJay D. Segbefia
Thank you Maxi!
Jonathan Adjetey
Brilliant, good read, write more often Garbo !