‘You have no evidence for voter register Discrepancies’ – NPP slams NDC over demo

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Kodua Frimpong has criticised the recent ‘Enough is Enough’ demonstration held by the NDC against the Electoral Commission ;EC) calling it unjustified due to their failure to provide evidence of discrepancies in the provisional voters’ register.

Addressing journalists on Thursday at an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting, Justin Kodua Frimpong said the NDC has still not submitted any evidence concerning the alleged discrepancies in the voters’ register.

“Many Ghanaians and the NPP cannot comprehend why the NDC has not submitted to the EC detailed information of its so-called irregularities, discrepancies, and unauthorised entries in the provisional voters’ register despite several appeals by the EC.

“For instance, on page two of their petition to the EC, the NDC stated emphatically that they have uncovered evidence of 243,540 illegal transfers, 3,957 deleted names, as well as over 15,000 unidentified voter transfer cards in the provisional register. ”Yet 13 days after the NDC first met the EC on September 6, 2024, they have still not provided a single document to authenticate any of these allegations. We ask, is this not interesting?”

“Indeed, if the NDC has any evidence of illegal transfers, why have they not submitted evidence of such an illegality to be reversed by the EC?
“We believe strongly that the nationwide demonstration by the NDC would have been justified had the EC failed to act after receiving evidence from the NDC on the alleged irregularities and discrepancies,” he stated.

The NDC has stated that it’s not strategic to provide EC with full gamut of discrepancies.

According to Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the NDC’s Director of Elections and IT, the party is strategically withholding some information to ensure a more calculated approach.

Speaking at an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on October 1, Dr. Boamah acknowledged that the EC had accepted three of the five pieces of evidence the NDC presented.

However, in cases where the EC didn’t accept certain discrepancies, the Commission attempted to provide explanations. Dr. Boamah emphasized that this selective acceptance is why the NDC has refrained from presenting the “full gamut” of discrepancies it has uncovered.

“That is one of the reasons – it is not strategic to provide the Electoral Commission with the full gamut of what we have,” he said.

Given these issues, Dr. Boamah reiterated the NDC’s call for a forensic audit of both the voter register and the IT systems of the Electoral Commission, as he believes this is necessary to ensure transparency and fairness in the upcoming elections.

By Sampson Kumah Ifeetwube Elvis