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Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko, Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon has implored Madam Charlotte Osei, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, not to disallow the vote transfer from the University of Ghana.

Speaking on Peace FM's 'kokrokoo' programme, Hon. Kyeremateng Agyarko noted that the Electoral Commission has planned not to allow the students of the University of Ghana to vote on campus due to the absence of a polling center in the institution.

According to him, the EC's action means the students are to go outside the campus to cast their votes which inadvertently will incapacitate some of the students whose polling centers are outside the Greater Accra Region.

He stated that the EC is the referee for the elections and so "must be seen to be rather helping and facilitating. They are the elections management body. They must be facilitating. They must not be impeding people.”

But to him, if the EC fails to adjust their laws to suit the students, the Commission will disenfranchise a large number of the students.

He advised the Commission to heed the calls from the students, saying "they should listen to the students. Then they will be seen as a friend of the electorate. They will be seen as facilitating what they need to do . . . They are Ghanaians. They’ve written their names. They hold the future. Whatever we can do for them to vote and have their heart desires answered for the government they desire to come to power.”