The Minority
Leader of Parliament and National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of
Parliament (MP) for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu, has argued that even though a
credible voters’ register is an absolute necessity in elections, there is no
need for a new voters’ register for the conduct of the 2020 presidential and
parliamentary elections wondering when a register that has produced the sitting
President, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, became so discredited.
“We in the NDC are of the firm belief that a credible voters’
register is a sin qua non to the conduct of free, fair and credible elections.
But we know that the same voters’ register that the NPP is
struggling to discredit is the same register that gave birth to Nana Addo
Dankwa as President of Ghana. The same register gave birth to his creation of
additional regions in the exercise of the referendum…When did the register go
so wrong to become so discredited and not good enough for 2020 elections?” He made this known in an address in Tamale during the commissioning of a clinic last
Friday.
He
said that the current voters’ register is credible enough for the 2020
elections, still holding the decision that “we don’t need a new register for the 2020
presidential elections.”
The Electoral Commission of
Ghana ( EC) has argued that the current register through credible is
overstretched and has some GHC 443 million for the compilation of a new
register.
But Mr Iddrisu has insists
that the EC needs that 764 million for the exercise.
Part of information gotten from mynewsgh.com.
Source: www.globaltipsgh.com
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