NDC welcomes EC"s decision not to compile new register

The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has welcomed the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) not to compile a new register.

In 2015, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and some pressure groups petitioned the EC to compile a new voters register. Their reason for this petition was that the current register is bloated.

After a forum with all recognized political parties and stakeholders in the electoral process, the EC set up a five member committee to look into the petititon.

Based on the committee’s recommendations, the Electoral Commission released a statement yesterday that said that the arguments calling for a new voters register was not convincing.

In an interview with Citi News, a deputy general secretary of NDC, George Lawson, says the party has been vindicated.

“Once the EC say that they’ve accepted the recommendation, we will all have to abide by it and move on. They said they were not able to convince the panel and all those who were there. We said there should not be a new voter register, we have been vindicated. Our provision is the same thing that the panel said,” he said.

Mr. Lawson added that “the only thing is that all hands be on deck for us to move this nation forward. This is an election year so all of us must just by the report and go ahead.”

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Source: citifmonline.com

NDC welcomes EC"s decision not to compile new register