The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is asking why the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is opposing the new Constitutional Instrument (CI) meant for the 2024 elections.
According to Evans Nimako, the Director of Elections of the NPP, the opposition to the bill is strange.
In an interview on Citi TV, Mr. Nimako expressed concerns over the NDC’s penchant for challenging measures aimed at sanitising the country’s electoral system.
“My little worry about the NDC is that anytime there are any arrangements that seek to sanities the registration exercise of the EC, they tend to disagree. We saw this when the new EC decided to put in place the new voter registration management system. They disagreed to the extent that they went to court and they failed.
“I’m not saying they shouldn’t challenge or bring alternatives. We have on a number of occasions disagreed with the EC. I don’t see their fears, but the question is, what does the NDC stands to lose if the EC at this point decides that we want to have a CI that will take away this whole issue about the guarantor system that gives us so much trouble,” he said
The NPP’s Director of Research and Elections advised the NDC to return to the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) in order to have extensive discussions with the other political parties on the way forward.
“The NDC should eat their humble pie and come to IPAC so that we can have a discussion there so that we will not take this whole long time to discuss this issue,” he encouraged.
Mr. Nimako called on Ghanaians especially politicians to support the EC to deliver on its mandate.
The NDC is kicking against the EC’s proposed CI through which it intends to make the Ghana card the sole identification document for voter registration.
Source: EVANS ANNANG