National Youth Organizer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Sammy Awuku, has warned of dire consequences if his Party’s call for a new voters register is not met halfway or heeded to. In a Facebook post Friday afternoon, Awuku, whose party is taking part in a two-day stakeholders’ forum to speak to issues surrounding […]
The Chairperson of Electoral Commission of Ghana, Charlotte Osei, has revealed that the Commission has written to the Togolese Electoral Commission for a copy of their voters’ register. The request by the EC is to verify claims that Ghana’s voters register has thousands of foreigners on it including Togolese nationals. The EC boss was speaking
The Chair of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), Charlotte Osei, has pointed out that the appearance of registered voters in the roll of Ghana and other countries cannot warrant their removal from the former’s roll. According to Ms Osei, there are multiple ways of acquiring Ghanaian citizenship and the EC has no mandate to
As the title of this article states, I believe the political parties that are calling for a new register are left with no other option but to boycott this week’s EC public forum ostensibly to openly discuss the merits or otherwise of the case for a new electoral roll; what I described just two weeks
A five-member body has been set up by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana to receive petitions and calls from some political parties, civil society groups and a number of Ghanaians for a new voters’ register.Others have called for an audit of the voters’ register, all with a view to ensuring a credible voters’ register
A deputy communications director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Anthony Abayifaa Karbo has given the strongest indication that the NPP would not be part of the 2016 election if the current “bloated” voters’ register is not changed.“We can’t go into an election with this register, that is foregoing, I can’t go into an
President John Dramani Mahama has challenged his critics to prove where he called for a new register prior to the Togo elections while he was Chairman of Ecowas. “You can go back to the records and find out whether I called for a new register for Togo,” he said in Twi. According to President Mahama,
Leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has defended his party’s call for a new voters’ register.
The National Peace Council has asked the Electoral Commission to involve civil society organizations in discussions pertaining to the calls for a new voters’ register. A statement issued by the Council expressed concern at what it described as “disturbing,” the partisan nature of ongoing discussions regarding the proposals for a new voters register. The Chairman
The New Patriotic Party has reacted to a news conference by the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC), ostensibly to pooh-pooh the NPP’s investigative findings which the says that Ghana’s voter register contains about 76,000 foreign names. The opposition party says it does not want to engage in petty politics by making such an important issue
