Prof. Smart Sarpong, a Senior Research Fellow of the Kumasi Technical University, has deflated claims that the Electoral Commission's restriction to use Ghana Card for its registration exercise is somehow a ploy by the Commission to rig next year's elections.
The Electoral Commission has began its limited voters' registration exercise aimed at registering all eligible Ghanaians and ensuring their legitimacy to vote in the elections.
However, the National Democratic Congress has filed a law suit against the EC, challenging the process.
The party argues the use of Ghana Card will deprive lots of eligible Ghanaians their voting right.
But to Prof. Smart Sarpong, the Ghana Card is the safest and surest way in ensuring a clean voters' register and to promote a free and fair election.
He urged the parties to stop having issues with electoral processes by the Commission stressing, "2024, any of the two political parties can win but the winner will be the one that is very smart. It is the smartest party, not the one who will complain about everything of the process".
He made this comment on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" show Thursday morning.
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Is this man too a professor?
The NDC is guilty of cutting corners; we have known that since Rawlings' time when they could box their way out. Thanks to the EC for doing a good job in making the electoral system credible. I want to encourage the EC to continue to use technology and digitalisation to make it more efficient and credible. To the extent that we can only use the Ghana Card to vote. Ghanaians are very aware that the NDC will always try to bully their way out of winning elections so that they become unaccountable to the electorate. A political party without a political message in terms of the policies it will put in place to affect the lives of the electorate, in the absence of that, kleptocracy and massive corruption are the means of maintaining political power and that is symptomatic of the NDC government.
Do your policy and issue base campaigns and stop complaining about the EC… What happened in 2016 when JM was the sitting president? NPP won!
What's smart about being unfair? After every sector failing, you're now setting some ***barred word*** smart party win agenda . So ***barred word*** to think we're all like npp foolsoldiers.