EC Wants To "Deny Ordinary Citizens Their Inalienable Rights" - Asiedu Nketiah
The opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC] says they will continue to kick against an upcoming limited registration exercise by the Electoral Commission [EC].
The party’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah noted that his party will only side with the EC if the exercise is decentralized.
According to the NDC, a lot of Ghanaians will be disenfranchised if the limited registration exercise is held at the district level.
“The argument we have made is that, it would be a tool to disenfranchise the ordinary citizens who have an inalienable right under the laws of the country to exercise their franchise as citizens of this country. When you look at the trials they did last year with the referendum, they did the registration in 47 districts, they estimated 100, 000 eligible voters but only 47,000 were recorded. That tells you clearly that a lot more of the people who could have registered did not register,” he said in an interview on NeatFM's "Ghana Montie" Morning Show.
But the EC has rejected the claims arguing that, the plan to organize the registration at the district level falls in line with measures to upgrade its Information Technology (IT) infrastructure.
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