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The New Patriotic Party has denied claims that they have a copy of the provisional voters register as claimed by the opposition National Democratic Congress.

According to them, the EC has asked them to bring a hard drive for a copy of the list but they have not received it yet.

Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia program General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. John Boadu explained that they are equally amazed by the NDC’s claim that by law the political parties should have a copy of the provisional voters' register.

"There is no law that states that the electoral commission is expected to provide the various political parties with a copy of the voters' register list. The Electoral Commission is indeed supposed to provide the various political parties with it but there is no law backing it", he added.

According to him, "the NDC can go to court to demand it but what I know is that the electoral commission will provide all political parties with the list when they are done with the compilation".

Meanwhile, Mr John Boadu has jumped to the defence of the EC insisting it is not in breach of regulation 22 (2) of the Public Elections Regulations (Voter Registration) as captured in Constitutional Instrument (CI 91) which states that: “At the end of the compilation of the provisional register as provided in sub-regulation (1), a copy of the provisional register shall be given to each registered political party in the form determined by the Commission.”

According to him, the EC is still within the stipulated time to furnish the political parties with the provisional register, therefore their Presser on the matter is useless.


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