The biggest opposition party in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says it will kick against any illegal deletion of names from the voter register.
A Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor, speaking on Eyewitness News on Citi FM said, “We will not allow any premature or illegal deletion of names people who have gone through stress to get their names on the register.”
Mr. Otokunor further stated that his party are are aware of the number of eligible registrants and that the new register is reflective of that hence any attempt by the EC to arbitrarily remove names from the new voters’ register during adjudication and deduplication processes will be met with the fiercest of resistance.
He also dismissed the EC’s latest suggestion that that there are minors and foreigners on the new register that require cleansing.
“But for the suppression; the deliberate, conscious, vicious suppression and intimidation by the government, a lot more people would have been registered than the 16.9 million we have on the register.”
“They have no business telling us their suspicions. They must come to the people with facts. We have given them work. They have the documentation.”
“If you have no basis, you don’t need to tell us that you suspect foreigners. You don’t work with suspicions, especially when you have the data. Until you have the facts, you can’t tell us what you are thinking,” Mr. Otokunor said.
Source: GhanaFeed.Com