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By Albert Futukpor / Kamara Osman Faisal, GNA
Tamale, July 08, GNA – The National
The Democratic Congress (NDC) will insist that activities be further reformed
functioning of the Electoral Commission (EC), in accordance with Article 45 of
the Constitution, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader in Parliament,
ad.
He said, "One of the NDC reforms will be
to push and seek is that every Ghanaian who turns 18 must
have the natural right to visit any EC office to register ".
Mr Iddrisu, also a Member of Parliament
(Member of Parliament) of the Tamale South constituency announced it during his exchanges with
journalists in Tamale Sunday after witnessing a large number of candidates
registered, who met at the EC Metropolitan Office in Tamale to get
registered in the context of the restricted voter registration exercise, which
completed July 07.
Many of the potential registrants have stated
they went to the registration center several times but could not be
recorded because of the large number of people who came every day to be
registered.
Mr. Iddrisu emphasized that "the right to
voting and the right to register to vote are essential to the subsistence and
survival of our democratic practice. His denial can be fatal to the country.
Constitutional Process ".
He said the NDC's decision to push for
further reforms in the activities and functioning of the EC, was based on
principle that "A credible electoral register is a prerequisite for the conduct of
free, fair and credible elections.
He was not happy that a lot of
potential registrants would not be able to register by saying:
you see, a lot of young boys here, can be denied the right to vote and be
voted for on the basis of inefficiencies of the EC and their poor judgment
in the current exercise for a few days.
Mr. Iddrisu spoke about the data system of
the EC reiterated that "the EC's data system is not in good condition and
therefore, they should consider rebuilding their data center. When you get
largely offline registration that we see and when they promised themselves
online it means that every day they have to enter offline registration into the
national data system ".
"I'm not sure it's done and that
is also another wrong. That means that they do not build a credible system
and the NDC is worried about it. "
He also talked about the impending NDC
Parliamentary primaries expressing the need for the party to focus more on the
orphans saying, "That we should declare the battlefield for the
elections as we seek to keep the 106 deputies ".
He hoped that a lot of
constituencies would keep their NDC deputies sitting "so we can take
take advantage of their experiences and grow some of them so that Parliament
stronger, more transparent and more accountable as an institution ".
He referred to his intention to constitute a
Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, MP for Tamale, will chair the team in the region
Central "To see how we can work at achieving retention
strategy".
GNA
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