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General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu has called the bluff of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to shed blood in their quest to prevent the Electoral Commission (EC) from compiling a new voters’ register.

He assured that any attempt by the opposition party to unlawfully disturb the process of compiling new voters’ register will be met swiftly by the security agencies.

“So, when the time is due and the NDC says that they are going to disturb the peace of the country and make sure that it will not happen, I am telling you that there are laws in this country,” he cautioned.

His warning appears to be directed at the Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Peter Boamah Otukunor, who is believed to have stated that there is no way the EC will be allowed to put together a new register. 

Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, John Boadu warned the likes of the NDC Deputy General Secretary to refrain from passing such comments. 

“Boamah Otokunor is not God to say that he will not allow for the new register to happen. Why, is he the one who authored the constitution of Ghana, so, therefore, he can say the EC has no mandate to compile a new register? Or is he more human being than all of us?” he quizzed.

“ . . just as you have the right to demonstrate, so the EC also has the right to compile a new voters’ register. Who is Otokunor to say it will not happen that the EC will be allowed to compile a new register? If that is the case, we shall see in this country; if there are no laws in this country, we will see about it. We have institutions which are mandated by law to deal squarely with anybody that will prevent the EC from discharging its constitutionally mandated duties...Otokunor is daydreaming with his threat."

“In 2016, when we (NPP) requested for a new register and the EC refused to listen to us, didn’t we conduct the elections? So, they are more human beings than all of us in the country to the extent that if EC has decided to compile new voters’ register, they will rise up against it? If the national security will sit back and allow them to do whatever they want, then it is up to all us,” he averred.