Otokunor gives a shot at sending to the limited registration exercise at district level

The National Democratic Opposition Congress (NDC) has opposed the organization of the next limited registration exercise at the district level.

Speaking to media last week, the party's general secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the NDC "was very opposed" on the issue and opposed any registration system that would be limited to EC district offices. "

In an interview with Citi News, the party's deputy secretary general, Peter Otokunor, said that Jean Mensah had told NDC officials at the meeting of the IPAC that she did not tell them had no explanation for the approach adopted by the EC. while she was talking.

Otokunor argued that the president's posture was becoming a threat to the Commission as an institution.

He insisted that a large number of Ghanaians would be deprived of the right to vote if the limited registration exercise took place at the district level.

"The argument we have made is that it would be a means of depriving ordinary citizens who have the inalienable right, under the law of the land, to exercise their right to vote as citizens of that country. When you look at the trials that they did last year with the referendum, they registered in 47 districts, they estimated at 100,000 the number of eligible voters, but only 47,000 were registered. This clearly tells you that many more people who could have been registered have not registered, "he said.

At the press conference last week, Asiedu Nketia said: "The parties have never agreed with the electoral commission. [at an IPAC meeting] limit limited recording [exercise] only to the district centers of the commission. "

The party insists that the EC must adhere to the decentralization of the exercise up to the level of the electoral zones instead of the 260 district offices.

In addition, he said, "the available evidence shows that it is a system that will eventually deprive many voters of its right to vote." qualified potentials ".

Mr. Aseidu Nketia also expressed his concern about the possible lack of resources in some of the newly created districts.

-Citinewsroom