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The National Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party, under the leadership of Sammi Awuku, has indicated its readiness to join the much anticipated protest at the offices of the Electoral Commission on Wednesday, September 16, to press home the need for a new voters' register before the conduct of the 2016 election. According to the National Youth Organiser, in a post widely circulated on social media, the decision to join the protest being spearheaded by pressure groups, Let My Vote Count, Alliance For Accountable Governance and Movement for Change, is because a new voters' register for 2016 borders on the very survival of Ghana's democracy. Determined to ensure that the call for a new voters' register is not reduced to the "usual NPP and NDC banter", Sammy Awuku explained the planned picketing at the EC is not an antagonistic crusade. "It is about the collective destiny of our country and the survival of our democracy. Surely elections are a process and the process which includes a voters register, must be credible," the NPP man noted. He therefore called on like-minded Ghanaians to join "as we picket on Wednesday the 16th of September at the EC premises to demonstrate our anger and peacefully make our concerns known to the Commission." To the Youth of Ghana, Sammy Awuku argued that they have a bigger stake in Ghana's electoral process, and is, therefore, calling on the millions of Ghanaian youth to lend their support to "the LET MY VOTE COUNT ALLIANCE on Wednesday at the Obra spot to begin the walk to the EC." In conclusion, Sammy Awuku urged the youth of Ghana to be minded about the fact that "in our Collectivity lies our strength."