The Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari has said compiling a new voters’ register for the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections is ‘unnecessary’.
“At a time that we have just six months to the elections, when would you compile the register? When will you exhibit it for people to go and crosscheck before we go to the polls? I think that timing is of the essence.”
“I think the decision to go out there to compile a new voters’ register at this time is unnecessary and also, so far for, all the reasons and the mistakes that the Electoral Commission itself has made actually compromises the whole process. And it gives citizens the cause to call for some redress. I look forward to the Supreme Court to determine this matter in a way that settles this issue for the citizens of this country and not necessarily for the NDC,” she said.
Madam Joyce Bawa Mogtari made the remark on Citi TV‘s weekend current affairs program, The Big Issue on Saturday, June 6, 2020.
Meanwhile, a former Member of Parliament for the Bantama Constituency, Henry Kokofu on the same show questioned the NDC’s position on the compilation of the new roll, saying the opposition party’s position is not clear.
“The first thing Ghanaians want to know is the NDC’s position. Is it that they want the new voters’ register but they want inclusion of current voters ID card to be a form of identity or they do not want the new register at all.”
“They confuse themselves along the line. At one breadth you think they want the new register but want old voter ID card as a prerequisite and another breadth, they talk like they don’t the new register at all,” he said.
Background
The Electoral Commission (EC) is set to compile new voters registration for the upcoming 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections beginning last week of June.
The NDC and other civil society organisations have kicked against the move.
But the EC is bent on compiling the new register regardless of the agitations.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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Madam, was bus branding necessary? No but Mahama did it. Did people not tell Mahama about all the unnecessary things he was doing yet he continued? Like Mahama, politicians never do things that are necessary. Just allow this good for nothing old man to do what he wants to do. After all, how many years does Akuffo Addo have more to live. He will die soon and we will be happy.
The new register is very necessary madam, because in Bole we have thousands of Zaminamas who have the old voters card and always vote as Ghanaians. These people could not venture to acquire the Ghana card when we were doing it. So this time their names cannot be in our voters register to choose for us who should be our president. I don't believe Ghanaians in their country vote over there so allow the EC to do their work as your boss said some years back..
MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO DEVELOPE SAVANNAH REGION AND YOUR HOME TOWN. BECAUSE THE NORTH IS SO DESOLATE THAT YOU NEED TO THINK OF THAT FIRST.TYPICAL NORTHERNER, A HAND FULL YOU PEOPLE ARE DISGRACE TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE NORTH.FO-O-L-I-S-H BOLGA MARKET AN-IM-A-L WITH NO SE-N-S-E
Madam can you please leave COMPETENT EC to do it’s work as your incompetent boss said in 2016? Thank you because we’re not going to fly on Airbus with an incompetent pilot through dumso to IMF anymore when babies with sharp teeth are on board and land us on Woyomey’s backyard. I know there could be FORD EXPEDITION to take us by land but we will rather prefer bus branding driven by Ativor in the middle of berko power crisis which indicates government official 1
Please go away!
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If its unnecessary tell your people not to register ! Ghanaians will go out there to register we need a new voters register with only Ghanaian names not ECOWAS ! Who is forcing you to register that you people getting so frustrated and depressed about this excercise, did you hear George Loh and his people got registered last week So what is your beef? If you don't want STAY HOME ! Ghana need's a credible register not ECOWAS register ! Moawi gya ! Mo b3wi potoo ! Ghana is moving forward and you people are irrelevant !