The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has demanded that the Electoral Commission (EC) publicly apologize to Ghanaians, accusing it of issuing a “bloated” voter register.
The NDC believes the inaccuracies could jeopardize the upcoming elections’ integrity and disenfranchise eligible voters.
At a press conference in Accra on Monday, the EC admitted to the error, acknowledging the inflated register in the Ejumako-Enyan-Esiam constituency. The Commission attributed the issue to an unintentional inclusion of voter transfer lists from 2020 and 2023.
Previously, the NDC had alleged that the EC, in collusion with the ruling NPP, inflated the register by over 3,000 voters.
In response, Dr. Bossman Asare, Deputy Chairman of the EC, explained the error.
Dr. Tanko Rashid-Computer, the NDC’s Deputy Director of Elections and IT, criticized the EC’s reliability and called for an external audit, while reiterating the demand for a public apology.