Leader of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM) and Founder of Life Assembly Worship Centre, Christian Kwabena Andrews, widely recognised as Osofo Kyiri Abosom, has expressed that assigning blame to the Electoral Commission for revealing its intention to conduct the forthcoming limited registration at district offices is unjustified.
A collective of minority political parties has submitted a petition to Jean Adukwei Mensa, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), urging her to reconsider the Commission’s choice of conducting the limited voter registration exclusively at district offices.
The Commission anticipates the involvement of approximately 1.5 million individuals who will be casting their votes for the first time during the exercise.
However, the Minority parties caution that this decision by the EC has the potential to deprive thousands of voters of their voting rights.
Speaking on GHOne TV’s State of Affairs with Lantam Papanko, Kyiri Abosom stated that Ghanaians should not be quick to condemn the EC without knowing the reason for its actions.
“I know it’s not their fault, it is the money that they requested, the budget. We need this to do and if you go and the government says I can’t give you five but I will give two that what are you going to do? You just sit down and put up certain things, something to represent something.”
“So if EC has the money, if the total budget was approved for them to come out and do this, I don’t think they will do the limited registration in that manner by saying that go to your district and register. But because maybe the amount,” Kyiri Abosom stated.
He continued: “So sometimes because we are not in their shoes, sometimes we should limit the condemnation, we condemn them, speak against them and the others. For that, I know much about what is happening at the EC.”