NPP vindicated by Supreme court ruling - Bawumia

Europa

May 5, 2016 7:36 PM

The Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Georgina Wood ruled on Thursday, May 5, 2016 that the EC should delete the names of all dead people and persons who used the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards to register to vote.

The Vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said that his party feels vindicated following a Supreme Court ruling that the Electoral Commission should take steps to clean the voters register.

The court however asked the EC to give those who registered with the NHIS cards another chance to register with alternative valid ID cards.

Addressing a gathering of students at the Accra Polytechnic Thursday, Dr Bawumia said the Electoral Commission must take immediate steps to sanitise the voter’s register ahead of the November polls.

"We have been saying that in fact, the voter’s register is not a credible voter’s register. We have said this for a long time and so we expect the Electoral Commission to very quickly and immediately put together the modalities for addressing this issue and removing the names of all the categories specified by the Supreme Court," Dr Bawumia said.

He however believed it would have been appropriate if the country had a new voters' register for the general elections.

"Whichever way you look at it, if we are going to do this in the most efficient way we probably will need a new register given the millions of people who registered with the National Health Insurance Card," he said.

Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission has said that it has already put in place a programme to cleanse the voters' register.

Europa