The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to issue a public apology to Ghanaians over what they describe as a “bloated” voter register.
The NDC believes that inaccuracies in the register could jeopardize the integrity of the upcoming elections and potentially disenfranchise many eligible voters.
During a press conference in Accra on Monday, the EC took responsibility for the inflated voter register in the Ejumako-Enyan-Esiam constituency, attributing the issue to an error.
Previously, the NDC had accused the Commission of colluding with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to inflate the register by over 3,000 voters.
However, at the press conference, Deputy Chairman of the EC, Dr. Bossman Asare, clarified that the Commission had inadvertently included voter transfer lists from 2020 and 2023 in the current register, which resulted in the inflated figures.
But reacting to this on Accra based on Citi FM, the NDC’s Deputy Director of Elections and IT, Dr. Tanko Rashid-Computer said the EC can no longer be trusted and called for an external audit.
He also reiterated the demand for the Commission to apologize to Ghanaians.
“We said we don’t trust their internal investigation. We are calling for an external body to audit them because this EC cannot be trusted to handle even their own data. Listening to them, they migrated 2020 transfers into these current transfers by bloating it. They should apologize to Ghanaians,” Dr. Rashid-Computer stated.
Source: Adomonline
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