Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has exposed the double standards adopted by President Mahama on the issue of the voters’ register.
It will be recalled that, whilst in France, the President is reported to have stated that the Electoral Commission should be left alone to do its works concerning the voters’ register, explaining that “I have no right to interfere in that list. Ghana has an Electoral Commissioner that is independent and does not consult the president to do anything.”
Despite stating that he was not going to interfere in the work of the EC, President Mahama is reported to have stressed that “it is a relatively young register because we have only used it for only one election and it was a register that has been biometrically compiled. And what we have done in the past is that when we have a young register we clean it up but one party says they want it scrapped completely and a new register compiled. We have to look at whether they have a case and that is why they are supposed to present their view but they are not only presenting view they are holding demonstration. It is for the EC to decide what to do.”
This, in the opinion of the NPP flagbearer, constituted “double standards, as usual,” on the part of the President.
Nana Akufo-Addo, who was speaking in an interview on Kumasi-based Hello FM, said “when some of us speak, President Mahama calls that interfering with the work of the EC. But, he believes his comments on the register and the need for it to be cleaned, instead of the compilation of a new register, does not constitute an interference? In a democracy, public opinion is key”.
Meanwhile, the NPP flagbearer on Sunday, October 11, 2015, commenced his “Rise and Build Tour” of the Greater Accra Region.
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