The NDC’s Parliamentary Candidate for Ketu North, Edem Agbana, has urged the Peace Council and Civil Society Organisations to take an active role in ensuring a credible voters’ register ahead of the 2024 elections.
In a media interview on Tuesday, September 17, Agbana expressed frustration at what he views as the silence of these groups on the NDC’s concerns about the electoral roll’s accuracy.
He accused the Peace Council and similar bodies of failing to uphold their mandate to protect democracy, calling their inaction hypocritical.
Agbana underscored the need for a transparent electoral process to preserve Ghana’s peace and stability, warning that unresolved issues with the register could lead to tensions in the 2024 polls.
“In all of this, the people I am most disappointed in are the Peace Council and those clergymen calling for peace. Peace is an outcome of many processes and they must be calling for a credible register and not only asking us to sign any peace pact,” he said.
Edem Agbana highlighted several issues the NDC has found with the current voters’ register, such as illegal transfers and inflated numbers, which he believes erode public trust in the electoral process.
He also called on Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to make the integrity of the voters’ roll a priority and to back the demand for a forensic audit to resolve these concerns.