The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of intentionally making the voter registration process difficult in its strongholds.
The ongoing limited voter registration exercise aims to register at least 1.35 million people who have turned 18 years old since the last registration exercise in 2020. The registration period, which started on Tuesday, September 12, is scheduled to conclude on October 2, 2023.
During a media briefing on the voter registration process, NDC National Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah alleged that the EC had deliberately deployed faulty registration machines to some of its district offices in areas where the NDC is traditionally strong. This, he claims, is an attempt to frustrate eligible voters.
Nketiah stated, “There are not more than two centers where these breakdowns are happening, which are in the stronghold of the NPP. All the rest are in the stronghold of the NDC…
It is as if His Excellency [President Akufo-Addo] was complaining about politicking within the bar association, which turns into a campaign at the bar conference.”
The NDC also criticized President Akufo-Addo for getting involved in discussions about alleged judicial bias. Nketiah argued that the President and the Judicial Service should prioritize addressing the issues at hand instead of focusing on the complaints.
“When people complain about the administration of justice, the President has the audacity to complain about the people who are complaining.
Can’t you see what is happening, that this same judiciary can find time to grant injunctions to people who intend to demonstrate against corruption at the Bank of Ghana with alacrity?
And yet, that same judicial system cannot find time and space to grant such an important injunction against an exercise that is being wrongly conducted and has the potential to throw this country into turmoil,” he emphasized.
