Reject limited voters' registration; it's a sham - PNC
28th June 2019
The National Chairman of the People's National Congress (PNC), Bernard Mornah has called on Ghanaians to reject the ongoing limited voter registration with claims that it is a sham.
According to Mr Mornah, the exercise may end up not yielding the desired results because the Electoral Commission (EC) has clearly shown incompetence on the delivery.
He said, “This exercise is a sham, one that is a waste of public resources and will not achieve the maximum benefit. It is one that the people of Ghana must reject because this is not what they have paid for. Parliament has approved sufficient resources to enable the Electoral Commission to conduct a holistic voters’ registration. The manner by which the Commission is going about it is unthinkable. ”
The limited voters registration exercise has faced a lot of challenges since its inception this year ahead of the 2020 general elections.
The largest opposition party the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had earlier accused the EC of deliberately conducting the exercise in a manner that will disadvantage other political parties.The NDC says its monitoring of the exercise has revealed a well rehearsed approach by the EC together with the governing NPP to disenfranchise voters in NDC strongholds.
The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia alleged that EC officials and some NPP officials have been captured on record registering minors and preventing the registration of applicants in NDC strongholds.
He said, “This exercise seems to point to a calculated and well-rehearsed orchestration designed by the Electoral Commission to intentionally create a state of confusion that will allow privilege and well positioned political players to exploit in pursuit of their parochial interest rather than the national interest of securing a credible register that is prerequisite for any free and fair election.”