The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to issue a public apology to Ghanaians over what they describe as a “bloated” voter’s register.
The NDC argues that inaccuracies in the register could compromise the integrity of the upcoming elections and potentially disenfranchise many eligible voters.
During a press conference in Accra on Monday, the EC acknowledged responsibility for the inflated voter register in the Ejumako-Enyan-Esiam constituency, attributing the issue to an error.
The NDC had previously accused the Commission of colluding with the ruling NPP to inflate the register by over 3,000 voters.
However, at the press conference, Deputy Chairman of the EC, Dr Bossman Asare, clarified that the Commission had inadvertently included voter transfer lists from 2020 and 2023 in the current register, leading to the inflated figures.
Speaking on Eyewitness News on Citi FM on Wednesday, Dr Tanko Rashid-Computer, the NDC’s Deputy Director of Elections and IT stated that the EC could no longer be trusted and called for an external audit.
He also reiterated the demand for the Commission to apologize to Ghanaians.
“We said we don’t trust their internal investigation. We are calling for an external body to audit them because this EC cannot be trusted in even handling their own data.”
“Listening to them they migrated 2020 transfers into these current transfers by bloating it…They should apologise to Ghanaians,” he stated.