NDC plans district-level demonstrations over EC’s refusal to audit voter register

The Director of Conflict Resolution of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, has said that the party is going to organize another demonstration against the Electoral Commission’s (EC) refusal to audit the voter register.

This time, he said, the protest will be at the district level across the country.

“We will go to the district levels, we will demonstrate again at the district level,” he said on the Big Issue on TV3, Friday, September 27.

The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected the call by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to conduct a forensic audit of the voter register.

The Commission said this while responding to the petition submitted by the main opposition party.

In its response to the NDC’s petition, the EC said “The Commission takes this opportunity to assure the NDC and the General Public that it has largely resolved all the discrepancies identified in the PVR. The Commission achieved this in 2020 and will do it again in 2024.

“We invite your team to the discussion table as we believe it will afford us the opportunity to demonstrate to you that the discrepancies detected in the PVR have been resolved.

“As a Commission, we are of the view that the existing legal and administrative processes for cleaning the PVR have not been fully exhausted to justify the call for a Forensic Audit. We entreat the NDC and the General Public to trust us to deliver our mandate.”

The NDC organized ‘Enough is enough’ nationwide demonstration on Tuesday, September 17  to press home their demand for an audit of the register.

“Our demand is simple,” National Chair of NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia said.

He added “We want the EC to ensure a free, fair, and transparent election and a credible register is central to that goal.

“We want nothing but transparent elections that will guarantee our right to choose our leaders. Without the right of self-determination, democracy is good as gone and every democracy at one point in time, comes under threat Ghana’s democracy is under serious threat now and we want to prevail.

“We shall overcome because every democracy has the risk of producing a tyrant but our ability to fight that tyrant and restore democracy once again is paramount and we shall prevail.

“Elections alone do not guarantee democracy, it is democratic-minded citizens who are ready to fight for them who can guarantee democracy.”