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Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah has asked the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to resolve their internal conflict and hold their Presidential and Parliamentary primaries this Saturday, May 13, 2023.

The party's primaries is in limbo as the Electoral Commission has refused to supervise it following a complaint by Dr. Kwabena Duffour, a Presidential aspirant of the party.

Dr. Kwabena Duffour has called for the elections to be postponed, raising concerns that the NDC voters' register has a lot of errors that render the register incomplete and inaccurate to be used to conduct the elections.

His team also says should the party go ahead to hold the elections on Saturday with the register, it will cause irreparable damage to their candidate.

As a result, they, on Tuesday, May 9, filed an interlocutory injunction against the party.

At a meeting on Wednesday, May 10, with the Elections Committee of the NDC, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Jean Mensa said in order that the EC is not cited for contempt, it will not supervise the primaries.

"Earlier this week, the Commission received a letter from the Kwabena Duffuor Campaign Team alleging various errors and anomalies with the Register. It was based on this, that the Commission felt it necessary to meet with the Elections Committee of the NDC as well as the representatives of the Presidential Aspirants to deliberate on this matter and agree on a way forward...yesterday we were served with an Application for Interlocutory Injunction seeking to restrain the Commission from supervising the conduct of the Presidential and Parliamentary Primaries due to the alleged anomalies with the register," she said.

Addressing the issue during Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" show, Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah, a Governance Lecturer at the Central University, hoped the party had resolved this issue internally without it proceeding to the court.

Nonetheless, he prayed the party's leaders to sit with the aggrieved candidate and find a suitable solution to this dispute.

He believed the delegates both abroad and in the country have made preparations for this Saturday, hence postponing the elections won't be good news for them and the party.

"If they postpone this election, it will cost a lot of people. It will cost the party. So, they should resolve the issue", he stated.