Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover, the Member of Parliament for Tema East has requested that executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the various constituencies should audit new members who want to be on the party’s voter register.

MP and  Deputy Minister of Transport, said the constituency executives should resist putting non-party members in the register to avoid confusion in the next general elections scheduled for 2020.

He asked that the party offices should encourage new members to register but they must ensure that they audit them to make sure that only true party members are registered and not charlatans.

Mr Titus-Glover, who spoke in an interview with DAILY GUIDE, asked the party executives to learn from what happened to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the last elections – as it registered people who are not party members, which affected the party in the 2016 elections.

His remarks were in response to calls by some members of the NPP in the Tema East Constituency. They are asking the national leadership of the party to cause the registers of the party to be released to the various constituencies as soon as practicable, to enable it register new members.

But Mr Titus-Glover indicated that those calling for the release of registers are not actual NPP members but impostors.

“We cannot open the floodgate; we need to know who are true NPP persons; and we must be able to audit the members. If we don’t do that and bring NDC members to come and elect our leaders for us, we are in trouble. Even today the NDC Kwesi Botchway report is telling them to throw out the register they did because it is pregnant with problems, so why do you also want to go and open the floodgate?” he said.

“I don’t see as a problem because it is talking about of update of register. My chairman told me when these registers came he summoned a meeting and a decision was taken on the update of the register.

“Those calling for the opening of the floodgate are characters who campaigned against me and used my name to summon meetings and shared red bands. These are characters who campaigned vigorous against me that I should lose. If an MP wants to meet his constituents, must they share red bands? All that they are doing is just to cause destruction but I won’t mind them because I am focused to bring development to my people,” the MP stated.

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