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