Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Anthony Abayifa Karbo has called on the Electoral Commission to comply with the recent Supreme Court order.
Anthony Karbo was of a strong view that the EC is an institution mandated by the constitution of the land and so, can't assume a position bigger than the laws of the country.
The country's apex court presided by the Chief Justice Georgina Wood has ordered the Electoral Commission to feed the court with the names of National Health Insurance Scheme card (NHIS) registrants in the voter's register and further provide the steps that the Commission will adopt to delete the names.
The court ruling comes as a result of the failure of the EC to expunge the names of the NHIS registrants after the court directed it to ensure that the names are removed from the register months ago.
The EC is supposed to carry out the order by June 29, 2016.
Commenting on the issue on Peace FM's Kokrokoo, he stressed that "the Supreme Court is the highest court of the land and the court of the land has spoken…You can’t have an institution created out of the constitution. All of sudden, that institution assumes powers that’s so powerful than the constitution of this land. It’s impossible. It’s impossible."
Karbo further stated emphatically his commitment to the country transcends his love for even his wife and so advised stakeholders in the election process to put the interest of Ghana first.
“The NPP will not bother its time, energy; going to the Supreme Court again. We will not. This year’s election is a people’s election. 2016; this election is bigger than the New Patriotic Party. It is bigger than Nana Akufo-Addo. And everybody as stakeholder in this issue, we must love Ghana than we love our parties. I love this country than I love my wife. I love it than I love my party . . . because without Ghana, I can’t have a wife.
"..people must know that this year’s election is not an election of the NPP and the NDC, and we in the NPP are not in election with the EC.”
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