Ghana doesn’t want ‘ECOWAS voters’ register’ – Akufo-Addo

Akufo-Addo: “We don’t want a West African election.”

The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo, has said the spectre of having non-Ghanaians on the voters’ register, who eventually have a say as to who Ghana’s president should be, must no longer be countenanced by all well-meaning Ghanaians.

According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the evidence gathered by the NPP, which shows that Ghana’s biometric voters’ register contains the names of thousands of foreign nationals, is indicative of the fact that the electoral roll is fundamentally flawed and unfit for the 2016 elections.

“We don’t want a West African election, we want a Ghanaian election. We only want an election of Ghanaian people who are entitled to vote,” he stressed.

The NPP flagbearer made this known when Alex Kojo Abban, NPP parliamentary candidate for Gomoa West; Gabriel Nsoh Agana, NPP parliamentary candidate for Bongo; Ekow Quansah Hayford, NPP parliamentary candidate for Mfantseman; and Daniel Okyem Aboagye, NPP parliamentary candidate for Bantama, paid separate courtesy calls on him at his Nima residence on Thursday.

Towards ensuring that a new voters’ register is compiled for 2016, Nana Akufo-Addo stated that “the NPP will continue to agitate peacefully, and advocate for a new voters’ register for 2016. At the end of the day, the Electoral Commission will have to look at our evidence, do what is right, and do what the people of Ghana are demanding.”

Akufo-Addo wondered why the ruling National Democratic Congress party, led by its General Secretary, has taken upon itself the role of “chief advocate for the Electoral Commission, an independent body.”

These actions by the NDC, however, according to him, will not deter the NPP from stressing the need for Ghana to have a new, credible voters’ register that must be compiled in time for the 2016 general elections

“We will not be perturbed (by the actions of the NDC). We want a register that is fit for purpose. We don’t want an ‘ECOWAS register' ”, Nana Addo maintained.

The ‘fight’ being put up to ensure that a new voters’ register is not compiled for the 2016 election, Nana Akufo-Addo said, is indicative of the fact that “President Mahama and his NDC party will not want to let power go off easily.”

Source: starrfmonline.com