Executives of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region have asked participants joining Tuesday’s demonstrations to come along fully prepared with some gari, sugar, and water in anticipation of a sleepover at the Regional Office of the Electoral Commission.
Charging the party’s rank and file in the region to come out in their numbers, former MCE of Obuasi and a member of the John Mahama regional campaign team. Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi popularly called ‘King Zuba,’ said the party will stop at nothing to exercise its constitutional mandate to resist the oppressor’s rule.
He disclosed that the party anticipates passing the night at the EC’s office should the Commission fail to offer any tangible assurances that their demands for a forensic audit of the electoral register will be heeded.
“When you are coming, make sure you have some gari mixed with sugar in your pockets and get some water because we are going to sleep over,” he directed.
Speaking to the media, Zuba called on persons who were not members of the NDC but shared in the rationale of demanding a credible votes’ register to join the walk.
“It’s not only about NDC people. If you are a Ghanaian yearning for change; and you want us to make sure this register is credible; if you are a Ghanaian and you want us to have peace after the seventh of December, let’s make sure we pour out in our numbers on the streets,” he charged.
He outlined that the demonstration will start from the party’s Amakom Office; go through the Central Business District, make its way through Nhyieso and head to the Regional Coordinating Council which shares the same compound with the Ashanti Regional office of the Electoral Commission.
Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi indicated that the demonstration will also be a platform to showcase and demonstrate the commitment of all 47 parliamentary candidates of the party contesting in the region which happens to be the stronghold of the governing New Patriotic Party.
The NDC is holding nationwide protests in all sixteen regional capitals to demand that the electoral commission conduct an audit of the 2024 Voters Register.
The party is among other concerns pointing to wide spread irregular transfers of voters as well as illegal transfers effected without the consent of victims.
The Electoral Commission has described the call as misplaced insisting it has responded adequately and made corrections pertaining to the complaints raised by the opposition NDC.
The Commission has further accused the NDC of showing bad faith by refusing to furnish the EC with its supposed list which contains thousands of alleged irregularities.
