General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Kodua, has announced that the party will stage its own protests if the Electoral Commission (EC) permits an independent forensic audit of the 2024 provisional voters’ register, as requested by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
In a statement shared on his official X (formerly Twitter) page on Thursday, September 19, 2024, Kodua wrote, “If the EC accepts the position of the NDC, the NPP will also hit the streets.”
This follows a nationwide demonstration by the NDC on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, under the banner of the ‘Enough is Enough Demo.’
The protest was aimed at pressuring the EC to audit the provisional voters’ register ahead of the December 2024 elections.
The NDC claims that the current register is riddled with irregularities and cannot ensure a free and fair election, a position the EC has refuted.
“The irregularities in the Provisional Voters Register (PVR) are not minor oversights or clerical errors; they indicate a deliberate manipulation of the voter database.
“These irregularities pose a significant and immediate threat to the credibility of the 2024 General Elections.
We demand that the Commission takes swift action to preserve the integrity of Ghana’s democratic process and ensure the stability and security of the nation,” the NDC stated in its petition.
The NDC said it has found more than 243,000 unauthorised voter transfers and that the transfers were made without the
knowledge and consent of the affected voters and therefore raised significant questions about who approved them and what role EC officials may have played in facilitating such changes.