The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, says the party will not back down on its demand for a forensic audit of the voter’s register.
According to him, the numerous irregularities identified by the party in the provisional voter’s register are too significant for them to trust it moving forward.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on September 18, a day after the party’s nationwide demonstration against the Electoral Commission, he explained that allowing the current register to be used in the upcoming elections would deny the NDC and other political parties a levelled playing field, thereby giving the ruling party an undue advantage.
“The most important thing is that your name should be in the register. If your name is in the register and you don’t even have an ID card, you can vote but if your name is not in the register and you have an ID, you can’t vote.”
“So, you can now appreciate the seriousness of the issues we are talking about here and somebody will say it is just about 4,000 people. That is what we as a political party detected back then. There could be more. You can only know the magnitude of that problem through a forensic audit. That is why the call for a forensic audit is non-negotiable,” he said.
He explained that there may be more problems with the EC’s IT system, and until those anomalies are identified and corrected, the party cannot trust the credibility of the register.
Mr Gyamfi stated that if the EC were to begin a forensic audit today, September 18, it could be completed within two weeks.
During the party’s ‘Enough is Enough’ demonstration on Tuesday, the party issued a one-week ultimatum to the Electoral Commission (EC) to take action on their petition for a forensic audit of the voter’s register.
The party announced that if the EC does not respond within this period, it will escalate its efforts with a series of protests aimed at pressuring the Commission to ensure transparency.
Meanwhile, the EC has since received the NDC’s petition and has assured the public and the party that it is committed to delivering a credible and robust final voter’s register.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
