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The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said the concerns raised by the New Patriotic Party over the panel tasked by the Electoral Commission to review proposals on the voters’ register is a strategy to further discredit the electoral body.

According to the NDC, the claims by the opposition party are baseless. The NPP says with the five-member panel are biased against it.

Speaking to Citi News, Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho defended the panel and said the EC’s forum is the best means of sanitizing the voters’ register.

He accused the NPP of running from “their own shadows.”

Though the NDC snubbed an earlier debate organized by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) over the same issue, Koku Anyidoho said “the reason for which we decided not to participate in the debate is specifically because we said we will prefer to use the EC’s forum because the EC is the constitutionally constituted body to look into electoral matters.”

“…If the NPP decides to boycott or run away, that is their business, we have always said that the NPP has no case and the reason they want to boycott is precisely because they don’t have any case and they are afraid that come 29th and 30th they are going to be exposed badly and embarrassed so they want to run away from their shame,” he added.

Koku Anyidoho again chastised the NPP saying, “they will find the slightest reason to throw mud at you if they must do that to cling onto any straw. They have done that to Afari Gyan forgetting that it was the same Afari Gyan’s era that they won two elections. Even if Jesus Christ should come down, they will accuse him of being NDC person. They have no case and they are just wanting to pick up dust but the good thing is that the more they run away the more their filth will engulf them.”