The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is requesting that the Electoral Commission (EC) extend the restricted voter registration period for those who have yet to register as a result of the Commission’s problems.
The EC began the exercise in all district offices in September, and it is scheduled to finish today, October 2.
The EC said in a news conference that it had registered over 600,000 eligible voters.
But, Mustapha Gbande, the NDC’s Deputy General Secretary, told Citi News that the EC must guarantee that all qualified candidates are registered before the operation closes.
People have been queuing for days at certain registration centres, according to Mr. Gbande, and they must be permitted to register before the exercise finishes.
“If you go to some centres, there are people who have been there in the last four days trying to register, and they have taken care of their own feeding and accommodation and one would expect that the EC would have a space for these people to be registered at least before the exercise comes to an end. So we expect that there should be places where they bring in more machines and workforce to ensure that they finish the people in the queue without having to send them back home.”
“If you go to a place like Asuogyaman, people have been in queues in the last four days, and the arrangements they have there is that you come and write your name and when it is time, then you come and register and so all these people assume that they are in a queue.”
