The flag bearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Mahama, has said that the various political parties and the Electoral Commission are partners in the electoral exercise of the country.
Mr Mahama said this today, Monday, 16 September 2019 at his home constituency, Bole, when he journeyed there to verify his name in the ongoing voter exhibition exercise.
Mr Mahama, whose polling station is the Bole District Assembly Polling Station, was in the company of the Member of Parliament for the Bole-Bamboi Constituency, Alhaji Sulemana Yussif and executives of the NDC in the Savanna Region.
Speaking to the media after verifying his details in the voter roll, Mr Mahama encouraged Ghanaians to take part in the exercise to make sure their names are captured in the register.
Mr Mahama also used the opportunity to talk about the concerns of some new voters and urged the EC to fix those problems.
“In some places, there are complaints that for the new people who registered, they are identified only by their new features, and I think that their other biometric features have not been captured yet, and, so, the fear is that in the future, if we are holding an election that’s using the biometric registration devices, they might not be able to vote because their biometric features will not be in the BVBs. That’s something the Electoral Commission must look at”, Mr Mahama said.
“Aside from that, my party complained, and other parties, we have heard they don’t have the full complement of the register. They have parts of it, so, it makes it difficult for them to monitor and follow the exhibition exercise. These are things that the Electoral Commission is enjoined to do and so they need to sit up,” he said.
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