The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday walked out of a meeting called by the Electoral Commission (EC) for technical persons of the political parties and the commission in relation to the plan for a new voters register.
The NDC argued that the letter inviting them to the meeting did not have an agenda, but when they arrived at the meeting Thursday, it was made clear to them that the decision to have a new voters register, had already been made.
To them, since a decision on what they were going to discuss had already been made, there was no need to be part of the meeting.
Supporting the NDC's walkout were representatives of two other political parties, the People’s National Convention (PNC) and the United Front Party (UFP).
The meeting was to discuss outstanding issues regarding the plan to compile a new voters register.
"There was supposed to be a meeting today and we believe that the agreement we reached at the meeting with the Committee of Eminent Persons was to the effect that they [Electoral Commission] will continue engaging us, continue engaging the technical persons of the political parties on the technical issues relative to whether we needed a new register or not," the General Secretary of the NDC, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia said.
"So we were all expectant that we will now meet the Electoral Commission and to investigate whether we should do a new register or not based on sound technical reasons."
"We had a letter some three days ago that our technical persons were expected to meet the Electoral Commission this morning [Thursday], in fact without any agenda. So we had to write back to them that we can no longer continue to be ambushed into meetings because it is an issue we raised even with the Committee of Eminent Persons, the Electoral Commission is engaged in a charade of consultations, they pretend to be consulting you when they are not consulting you" Mr Asiedu Nketia added.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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Why do the ndc waste their time attending EC meetings? What is hard in telling Ghanaians ndc is not taking part in the elections than this walk out and demonstrations which is making their party more unattractive and irritant. There is nothing to change the EC new register to listen to the ndc, ndc is not in power and will never be in power. We Ghanaians want to know what is in the old register that is shaking the ndc!It will be changed for what will happen to the ndc to happen
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS. THE EC IS AN INDEPENDENT BODY AND IF THEY HAVE DECIDED TO GO IN FOR A NEW REGISTER, WHY ARGUE WITH THEM? WHEN THE REGISTRATION STARTS ON 18TH APRIL 2020, PLS ASK YOUR MEMBERS NOT TO REGISTER, B'COS YOU WALKED OUT. LONG LIVE GHANA, LONG LIVE THE EC.