On Tuesday, September 17, the largest opposition party in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) held a nationwide protest against the Electoral Commission to demand that the electoral body audit the provisional voter’s register for the December 2024 election.
The party insists that the register has a lot of irregularities and cannot guarantee a free and fair election, although the Commission disagrees with this position.
In a bid to pile pressure on the Commission to take action, the party hit the streets in all 16 regions on Tuesday, demanding the EC heed its call for an independent forensic audit.
Addressing the media after presenting their petition to the Electoral Commission the National Chairman of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketiah said he does not see what the EC loses by acceding to the demand for a forensic audit to the voters register.
He said the party only wants the transparency of the electoral process
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He said the NDC has proving beyond reasonable doubt to allow the EC to conduct a forensic audit on the register
He outlines some errors the party have seen, the irregularities in the Provisional Voters Register (PVR) are not minor oversights or clerical errors; they indicate a deliberate manipulation of the voter database.
The NDC said it has found more than 243,000 unauthorized voter transfers and that the transfers were made without the knowledge and consent of the affected voters and therefore, raise significant questions about who approved them and what role EC officials may have played in facilitating such changes.
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Story by: Osei Akoto (Teacher Kojo) #Ahotoronline.com
