Presidential staffer, Dr. Clement Apaak is claiming that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is intentionally misinterpreting the Supreme Court’s ruling on the use of NHIS cards for registering to vote.
He said the opposition party is fully aware that they lose the November 7 polls therefore; they are working to poison the minds of Ghanaians against the Electoral Commission (EC).
“What they are trying to do is to poison the minds of the good people of this country…and whip up their sentiments to begin to believe that should they not be successful in the upcoming elections which I know they will not, it will be because of some kind of connivance between the EC and the NDC,” he said during a panel discussion on Radio Gold.
He indicated that the NPP’s commentary on the matter is aimed at creating the impression that there can never be a free, fair and transparent election in Ghana because “there is collusion, there is a conspiracy and there is a relationship between the ruling party and the organization which is supposed to ensure that we have a free and fair elections.”
According to him, the “original intent of Abu Ramadan plus one was to try and get the current voters register declared void to justify their unjustifiable cause for a new voters register.”
“It’s a deliberate attempt to misinform the people of this country, to claim the plaintiffs have been victorious and therefore, there were certain expectations of actions to be undertaken by the Electoral Commission,” he remarked.
Dr. Apaak stressed that Abu Ramadan’s case was simply an “attempt to use the back door to try and achieve the goal of the crumbled advocacy for a new register.”
“I am sad to say that this new advocacy which is trying to pervert the word and letter of the judgment to satisfy that original intent is not going to wash,” he warned.
He said the commentary surrounding the Supreme Court judgment on the case breaks his heart “and sometimes I feel like weeping.”
“I miss my days in civil society so that I can take on these so called activists," he said.