EC responds to NDC's "unfounded and unfounded" allegations

General News on Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Source: peacefmonline.com

2019-01-30

The Ghana Electoral Commission responded to the issues raised by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The National Democratic Congress, earlier this week, voiced concerns over the electoral register for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency ahead of the January 31 by-elections.

The opposition party accused the EC of not providing them with a credible register for the by – election.

The NDC has also criticized the leadership of Electoral Commission President Jean Mensa that it could undermine the credibility of the election.

According to the NDC, attempts to access the proxy list, the transfer list, and the special voters list were unsuccessful.

But in a statement, the Commission called the claims "false": "the NDC requested a copy of the said lists on Friday, 25 January 2019, at the end of the Commission's activities." author of the press release has unlimited access to the president in charge of operations and could have reached him without much effort ".

"Letters of this kind go through a process of registering before being brought to the attention of the addresses." Requests for confidential information must be approved by the president or vice versa. Presidents before they are disclosed in a timely manner to the demands of political parties, it will not compromise its processes and put in place systems for any entity.

"The Commission finds it surprising that, rather than going to the Commission to discuss this issue, the NDC has chosen to become public, accusing the Commission of inflating the registry in favor of a particular political party. These allegations are unfounded and unfounded and public to ignore them. "