The NDC’s Director of Elections, Dr. Omane Boamah, stated in a Facebook post that party representatives attending the meeting would ensure it is streamed live for public transparency.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced its intent to ensure that its meeting with the Electoral Commission (EC) regarding the 2024 provisional voters register will be broadcast live.
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He also cautioned the EC against any attempts to manipulate the upcoming election in favour of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), warning that such actions would not be accepted.
Dr. Boamah further questioned the “LOUD SILENCE of the ruling NPP despite the anomalies” raised about the provisional voters register.
In a letter dated August 27, the NDC requested a meeting with the EC to address alleged discrepancies in the voter register.
On Thursday, September 5, the NDC made a follow-up request for the meeting, scheduled for Friday, September 6, to be aired live, but the EC declined.
General Secretary of the NDC, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, in a letter to the EC said a live broadcast of the meeting will ensure transparency of the engagement.
NDC's demands
They demanded an arrangement of this said meeting, which the NDC said is meant to “discuss very serious discrepancies discovered during the ongoing 2024 voter exhibition exercise. The discrepancies emanate from analysis of the Provisional Voter Register (PVR) given to us by the Commission, and registers being exhibited at the centres.”
The NDC and other groups raised concerns with some discrepancies they said were discovered when the voters’ register was exhibited between Tuesday, August 20, to Tuesday, August 27.
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed deep concerns regarding the integrity of the voter register compiled by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) for the upcoming 7 December 2024 general elections.
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.
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.