Old voter registration assures NDC 1.5 million automatic votes – reveals Ken Agyapong

General News for Thursday, April 30, 2020

Source: happyghana.com

2020-04-30

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There has been a heated debate over the need for a new voter registry in Ghana with some opposing parties and others supporting the idea in recent months.

Some civil society organizations (CSOs) and some political parties have rejected the proposal of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new electoral census before the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. While members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) ) and others have also supported the idea.

Speaking about the need to compile the registration of new voters in an interview on Happy98.9FM, “Epa Hoa Daben” was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin’s central constituency, Kennedy Agyapong.

The politician indicated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has manipulated the registration of former voters to favor them, therefore, the need for a new one.

“The NDC and the provider, Superlock Technologies Limited (STL) have implemented a system in which the party effortlessly gets 1.5 million votes even before the election,” he said.

According to him, the STL is made up of thieves and that is one reason why President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo won the 2016 election by a low margin.

He then attributed the NDC opposition’s fight against registering new voters as an acknowledgment of the loss they would make if it came to be.

But the MP promised: “We will change the record no matter what happens.”

The EC was prepared to compile a new voter registry before the Ghanaian government’s decision to close all of the country’s borders and impose restrictions on public gatherings and movements in response to the Coronavirus outbreak.

Two weeks after President Akufo-Addo imposed a ban on all public gatherings and announced other “social distancing” directives in an effort to stop the spread of the new Coronavirus, the EC announced that it was postponing the registration exercise indefinitely.