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With less than 75 days until the upcoming general elections both presidential and parliamentary, The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has started mounting pressure on the Electoral Commission on the voters register.
Yesterday, it was reported that the flagbearer of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama has call off his campaign tour in the Bono region to address the nation at the party’s Headquarters in Accra amid challenges of the electoral processes.
Mr Mahama described the anomalies in the ongoing exhibition exercise as a purposeful act by the Commission to prevent the 2020 elections from being a free and fair election.
The former president announced that he will speak to the nation from the NDC Headquarters in Accra today.
However, the Electoral Commission has debunked allegations made by the NDC flagbearer that the institution has deliberately removed the names of some electorates.
In a press released issued on Wednesday, the EC emphasized that the allegations are false.
“The Commission has, from the beginning of the compilation of the Voters Register, lived up to its motto: Fairness, Transparency and Accountability.”
The Electoral Commission, therefore, noted that it will be absurd for it to go contrary to its own slogan to disrupt the democratic process in the country.
It noted that the law recognizes the fact that the registration process is not foolproof, as such the Law (CI 91) makes provision for the exhibition exercise for the sole purpose of addressing any anomalies in the provisional register.
“In a nutshell, the Exhibition Exercise provides an opportunity to Stakeholders to unearth problems with the Register for the purpose of fixing it.
“This is exactly what the Electoral Commission is doing. We are fixing the issues unearthed. We assure the Public that the Commission is working to ensure that the margin of error with the Voters Register is negligible.”
