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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is set to tour the West African sub-region with their message on the call for a new voter register. Former National Chairman of the party, Peter Mac Manu said on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Programme on Thursday that a delegation from the party would visit the Presidents of Nigeria, Senegal and Togo to brief them on their call for a new voters’ register before the 2016 General Elections.

“We are heading to Abuja, Dakar and Lome…to tell them of our actions and the impending danger in Ghana if the voters’ register is not changed…they should call our President and advise him,” he said.

The party’s vice presidential candidate at a press conference in Accra a fortnight ago called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to start making preparations for a new voters’ register arguing that the existing one is bloated.

He explained at the conference that a team commissioned by the party to investigate the register upon completion of 10% of their assignment found 76,286 persons who had their names both on the Ghanaian register and that of Togo.

Despite claims by the NDC that the NPP’s call is ‘fraudulent’, the party insists that the register is ‘incurably flawed’ and have constantly drummed home their demand for a new one.

The EC at an IPAC meeting has also urged the various political parties to come forward with their written arguments either for or against the call for a new voters register.

But this, Mac Manu said would not prevent the NPP from further lobbying for a new register adding that the party has forwarded their proposals to various state and non-state actors in the international system.

The tour, he said, would commence on 2nd September, 2015 and would begin in Abuja.