The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu says the party will resist any attempt by the National Identification Authority to do a mop-up in areas they had challenges during the initial Ghana Card registration.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of an Inter-Party Advisory Committee meeting held at the Electoral Commission on Wednesday, John Boadu said, “I disagree with the position that they will do a mop-up in some few areas they think they were unable to do and if I want to be political about it if you consider the number of people who have not yet received their cards. Central Region, Ashanti Region, Eastern Region and Greater Accra alone constitute about 68% of those who have not received their cards yet".
“All the other regions, the 12 regions constitute just around 32%. So if you want to talk about connivance with the NIA to disenfranchise people we the NPP will lose a lot…so if you have four of our strongholds constitute 68% who should be complaining? It is we the NPP who should be complaining”.
“If you take these four regions in question, we have 45% of the total population who have not yet been registered. To the extent that about One Million people in the Ashanti Region have not been registered. So any attempt by the NIA to do a mop-up without doing a mass registration will not sit well with us”.
Taking a swipe at people who say the governing NPP is in connivance with the NIA to disenfranchise people, Mr. Boadu said, “for anybody to think that we are rather in connivance with NIA begs the question. I don’t think that they even understand what they are talking about.”
Source: ghanaweb.com
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So is true the use of ghana card and passport to register will affect many ghanaians, so why npp busy support the crook tactics of EC its clear there is a hidden agenda
Reality checks will come to play if inexperienced EC COMMISSIONERS ACTIONS IS GOING TO PLUNGE GHANA INTO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. TODAY,MOST BANKS ACCEPT CURRENT VOTER ID CARD AS A PROOF OF NATIONALITTY. YOU HAVE AN AVERAGE OF 18 MILLIONS GHANAIANS TO REGISTER IN 40 DAYS. This works up to registering OF over 450,000 eligible voters per day. THE QUESTION IS, IN THE PREVIOUS REGISTRATION PROCESS, WHAT IS EC AVERAGE REGISTRATION CAPACITY. PER DAY TO SUMMOUNT THE HERCULEAN TASK OF REGISTERING 450,000 PER DAY. DISPLAYED THE PROVISIONAL REGISTER. GHANAIANS IN NIGERIA,ABIDJAN, TOGO ,BURKINA FASSO, UK, USA who once possessed current voter card but desirous TO COME TO GHANA TO partake in EC REGISTERING under this covid 19. IS THE AIRPORT, BORDERS GOING TO BE OPENED FOR THEM?
I now know why the EC cannot go ahead with a new register. If NPP general secretary is saying this, then where is the justification for those who are condemning NDC of resisting EC for a new register. Where is kweku baako, who keep talking about NDC, now listen to what you NPP fellow is saying.