The chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Hon Dr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has taken a swipe at the Electoral Commission regarding the grim stance by the commission to compile a new voters register from the last week of June, this year despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
The NDC boycotted the Inter Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting with political parties and some civil society groups aimed at finding a lasting solution to the impasse regarding the new register for the 2020 polls.
However, during a panel discussion on Ahotor 92.3 FM’s Adekye Mu Nsem morning show on Thursday, Dr. Ofosu Ampofo said happenings at the commission could be likened to a comedy of theatrics considering the behaviour of the EC chairperson, Madam Jane Mensah.
He averred that the posture of the Director of Operations and Research for the EC, Dr Serebour Quarcoo, is disheartening, and also exposes the activities of the EC to ridicule.
The country is on a knife edge over the insistence by the EC to compile a new voters register to satisfy their whims and caprices.
Ofosu Ampofo
Dr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo posits that the EC is under the influence of the NPP government and the Commissioners appear adamant to receive wise counsel.
The deputy chairperson of the EC Dr Bossman Asare told the media after meeting with about thirteen political parties that the EC is buckled up to conduct the registration of the new voters register ahead of the general elections in December.
The national chairman of the NDC told host Citizen Kofi Owusu that, the country is on a knife edge over the insistence by the EC to compile a new voters register to satisfy their whims and caprices.
Meanwhile, a coalition of a pressure groups and political parties dubbed, “the Inter Party Resistance Against the Compilation of the register” held a media briefing and announced their unwillingness to honor the invitation of the EC to participate in the IPAC dialogue, due to the EC’s unilateral position.
The country has since recorded 7,303 cases with a death toll of 34, and over 2,412 recoveries.
Nana Dogbe / Ahotor News
