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Danquah Institute’s (DI’s) call on the Electoral Commission (EC) not to go ahead with its planned limited registration of fresh voters ahead of the November polls until it has implemented a validation exercise recommended by EC’s Committee has received inferno from the ruling NDC’s Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho.

According to him, the Danquah Institute only exist on paper and on social media as there is no office address as well as identifiable number of staff working for the institute except Gabby Otchere-Darko and the current Executive Director of DI.

“Danquah Institute cannot think that it can drive Ghana electoral process. The DI which we only see on paper, I wonder what their office address is and the number of staff members they have. Apart from Gabby and the current Executive Director of DI, I don’t know who else belongs to the institute and they want to make themselves more relevant than the Ghana’s EC...we hear of DI on Twitter and Facebook; it cannot happen”, he chided.

Koku Anyidoho who was upset with the demand by the DI admonished that the likes of Gabby Otchere-Darko cannot determine how elections are run in Ghana; adding the fact that he (Gabby) succeeded in his quest for EC to use biometric verification machine for the 2012 election does not mean he can determine how elections should be managed.

He fumed that the policy think-tank wants to make itself more relevant than the Electoral Commission (EC); adding that DI cannot determine the electoral calendar for the EC because it has its own calendar to do exhibition at the appropriate time.

“We are doing the limited registration and those who can do it should do it…we cannot be doing everything at the same time so all these things are just to push into their agenda last year that there are ghost names, there are dead people and there are Togolese on the register”, he averred on Okay Fm's Ade Akye Abia Morning Show.

Touching on the limited registration, Koku Anyidoho advised all NDC supporters who already have voter’s ID card to desist from the limited registration as it is meant for those who have turned 18 years and above.

He cautioned that any attempt to take part in the limited registration by anybody who name is already captured in the register will result in that individual forfeiting the right to vote in the 2016 general election on November 7.