Nana Addo to justify calls for new voters’ register today

• Posted on August 18, 2015
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Nana Akufo-Addo and his running mate Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, will lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Tuesday to  address the nation on the party’s push for a new voters’ register for the 2016 general elections.

The highlight of the event will be a presentation by Dr. Bawumia, to according to them, expose the flaws in current register.

Before the presentation at a news conference in Accra in the morning, the General Secretary of the Party, Kwabena Agyepong, and Dr. Bawumia, will present a document at the headquarters of the Electoral Commission to its Chairperson, Mrs Charlotte Osei.

This comprehensive document sources say, contains the evidence of the NPP’s case for a new register, including the evidence of their findings. Meanwhile the General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, says any attempt to replace the current voters’ register may open the floodgates for the register to be compromised.

He also said, a fresh register will only create avenues for more minors to be registered. Meanwhile a political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Richard Amoako-Baah has also backed calls for a new voters’ register, insisting that a new register will guarantee credible polls 2016. According to the Dr. Richard Amoako-Baah the current voters’ register has raised suspicion among the political parties themselves and just cleaning is not an option.

The NPP argues that with a voter population of about 14 million, Ghana has a questionable and statistically indefensible rate of 56 percent of its population being above 18 years. Speaking to Citi News, the Head of the History and Political Studies Department in the Faculty of Social Science at KNUST, Dr. Richard Amoako-Baah was of the view that Ghana needed a new register to have the confidence of all political parties and the international community in the 2016 elections.

-Citifm