Her reactions in an X post come after the thousands of supporters and executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from across all 33 Constituencies in the region are taking part in the demonstration exercise against the EC for an audit of the voters' register.
Legal practitioner and special aide to former President John Mahama, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has alleged that the Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission (EC), Benjamin Bano-Bio was "brought from the Ashanti region to rig 2024 elections for the New Patriotic Party (NPP)."
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The NDC raised concerns when it was furnished with the provisional voters register, stating there were a lot of discrepancies, including bloating of the electoral role in some of the polling stations, which it said formed parts of the EC’s attempts to rig the December 7 polls to favour the NPP.
Chairman of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, therefore, called for a nationwide protest during a campaign rally.
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The party is also calling for a forensic audit of the register, which it said will enhance the credibility of the upcoming general elections.
Joyce Bawah Mogtari
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The Service also reassured the public that the police were fully equipped to provide security throughout the demonstration during a press conference on Monday, September 16, 2024.
NDC's issue with the 2024 voters' register
The party claims that serious discrepancies exist between the 2024 Provisional Voter Register provided to them and the one employed by EC officials during the recent Voter Register Exhibition exercise.
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Key figures within the NDC, including the party’s flagbearer and former President John Dramani Mahama, have pointed to numerous issues within the voter register.
These issues reportedly include the inclusion of deceased persons, instances of multiple registrations, illegal voter transfers, and unnotified changes in polling stations, among others.
In an interview with Metro TV on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, Dr Omane Boamah, the NDC's Director of Elections and ICT, voiced his astonishment at the number of anomalies discovered in the 2024 Provisional Voter Register.
Dr Boamah highlighted that the register provided to the NDC differs significantly from the one used for the exhibition exercise.
