The Deputy Regional Youth Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Onasis Kobby has cautioned the Electoral Commission (EC) to ensure it does not repeat its errors on December 7 as they won’t have the patience for that.
The Ashanti Regional Director of the Commission, Benjamin Bannor had admitted that the EC had made a mistake by misquoting figures due to failure of electoral officers to report daily by rather submitting accumulated figures.
However, Onasis Kobby on Asempa FM noted that it is unforgivable for the Commission with its experience to commit such mistakes. He warned that the NDC will not tolerate such errors on December 7.
“From 1992 in our fourth republic up until this time, there is no need for these kinds of error. In the coming days, you will see that the numbers will go down. Our calculations tell us that the numbers that are coming through are padded. If you were in the Ashanti region in 2008 and followed the elections, this will look like history. It got a point that the figures were not counted but they were just written.
If you remember those four constituencies that came in at the last minute when they have been declared being Suame, Manhyia, then the numbers could change all of a sudden if God did not intervene the election would have gone in the NPP’s favour,” Onasis Kobby stated.
He added, “It has happened before and we will not let it happen again so what they need to do is to be open and do the right thing. So the Electoral Commission which is presiding over the registration process does not have to commit such errors at this critical point in time. Yes, they can commit errors like peoples date of birth but In terms of figures that these number of people have been registered then you make mistakes with that, we will not have the patience to wait for their errors on 7th December so it’s about time they put their acts together. The good thing is that the regional director is not fighting us because he has realized that what we brought were true.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com