In response to what they regard to as a “bloated” voter registration, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has demanded that the Electoral Commission (EC) publicly apologize to Ghanaians.
The NDC contends that errors in the register have the potential to undermine the credibility of the next elections and deny many qualified voters the right to vote.
The EC took ownership of the inflated voter register in the Ejumako-Enyan-Esiam constituency on Monday during a news conference in Accra, attributing the problem to a mistake.
The NDC had previously accused the Commission of colluding with the ruling NPP to inflate the register by over 3,000 voters.
During the press conference, Dr. Bossman Asare, the EC’s Deputy Chairman, clarified that the inflated figures were caused by the Commission accidentally incorporating voter transfer records from 2020 and 2023 into the current register.
The NDC’s deputy director of elections and IT, Dr. Tanko Rashid-Computer, declared that the EC could no longer be trusted and demanded an external audit during a Wednesday appearance on Eyewitness News on Citi FM.
Additionally, he restated the call for the Commission to offer Ghanaians an apology.
“We said we don’t trust their internal investigation. We are calling for an external body to audit them because this EC cannot be trusted in even handling their own data.”
“Listening to them they migrated 2020 transfers into these current transfers by bloating it…They should apologise to Ghanaians,” he stated.
