A former Greater Accra Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Michael Ampong has stated that Ghana can never have a perfect register.
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Ghana can never have a perfect register – NPP’s Michael Ampong
Michael Ampong claimed that even in advanced countries such as the United States, “they don’t have a perfect register.”
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According to him, considering the numerous institutional and systematic problems the nation has been grappling with for decades, “there is no way that we can have a perfect register.”
He claimed that even in advanced countries such as the United States, “they don’t have a perfect register.”
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and some pressure groups are demanding the creation of a new voters register for the 2016 general elections.
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A series of demonstrations both in Ghana and abroad have taken place with the aim of pressurising the Electoral Commission (EC) to put together a new register.
The NPP maintains that the current register is bloated with about 2 million ghost names; therefore, it is not credible enough to ensure a free and fair election in 2016.
The EC subsequently charged all political parties, civil society organizations and other groups to submit their proposals for a new register.
Contributing to a discussion on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji programme on Saturday, Mr. Ampong pointed out that the NPP should stop creating an erroneous impression that “the voters register as it is will determine who wins an election.”
He was of the view that even “if you have a register as clean as the Quran, as clean as the Bible and you don’t have the kind of corresponding party agents who are well trained, well informed, well educated on electoral rules, well motivated, well resourced, I am telling you, we will still be rigged.”
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Mr. Ampong recommended that the NPP should rather focus its attention on “strengthening the state of the party on the ground.”
“Elections are not won by rallies. It is not the rallies and the radio and all these things because Ghana is quite big and I can tell you that the over 26,000 polling stations, if i am not mistaken, about 70 percent are in the rural areas...so if you tend to over rely on the media in Accra and in Kumasi, and if you think that if you stoke the temperatures in the urban centres and they become high, it means you are winning an election,” he said.
He added that “as long as a particular political party is not well structured or it is not well motivated on the ground especially in the rural areas, am telling you, we are going to be in fool’s paradise.”
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