<<Print>>

The just ended primaries by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to select its parliamentary candidates for the 2016 general elections was fraught with complaints by legible voters that they could not find their names in the voter’s register and some disenfranchised voters at the Adentan Constituency in the Greater Accra allege that some aspirants bought booklets of the voter register and filled it with names of their allies thereby denying legitimate voters to cast their ballot.

According to some of the disenfranchised voters, “one of the aspirants actually bought the booklets at a cost of Gh¢3,000 per one and replaced the names after the exhibition”.

Speaking to The New Crusading GUIDE yesterday at Amrahia Zongo in the Adentan Constituency, the disgruntled voters further alleged that apart from only three persons in that particular Ward who could vote “about 200 of us were disenfranchised because someone had deliberately deleted our names from the register although our names were in the register during the exhibition exercise and he would pay for it dearly”.

Pointing accusing fingers at Mohammed Adamu Ramadan who eventually won the NDC Parliamentary slot, they alleged that “after realizing that he was not enjoying enough support here at Amrahia Zongo, he never came back to campaign and so it came as no surprise when our names were not found in the register on the voting day”.

The incumbent MP, Emmanuel Nii Ashie Moore was defeated by Mohammed Ramadan who polled 2,387 votes with the former managing only manage 1,130 votes.

Former MCE Kakra Vanlare who was said to have suffered from the electoral machinations, failed to impress.