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Lawyer David Annan, a private legal practitioner and a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dismissed suggestions the ruling party is putting up a defence for the Electoral Commission (EC) to ensure names of NHIS card users remain in the voters’ register.

According to him, many Ghanaians hold the perception against the NDC that it is backing the EC to maintain those who used National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card as a form of identification in order to be captured in the voters’ register cannot be true as the ruling party is not even certain that those NHIS users are supporters of NDC.

Speaking on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, lawyer David Annan insisted that the concerns of the NDC is to ensure that the Electoral Commission (EC) carries out its work without anybody’s interference as the 1992 Constitution has stated.

“...NDC is not defending EC so that they maintain NHIS card users in the voters’ register. Ghanaians should discard that thought that NDC is hell bent on ensuring that those who used NHIS card to register should vote in 2016 because we don’t know for sure that those NHIS card users are our supporters or for the NPP...we are rather saying that Abu Ramadan and co should leave EC alone to do their work without interference; that is what we have been saying recently”, he averred.

The legal practitioner maintained it will be a fight in futility to support the EC to maintain the NHIS card users on the voters’ register as they may be fighting for their enemies.

He however wondered why Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako have suddenly stopped talking about the dead, foreigners and minors on the voters’ register and rather focusing on only NHIS card users as contained in their earlier relief.

“...our problem is why do some people feel they can dictate to the EC, an independent body; just like the Supreme Court what it should do its duties...?" he quizzed.