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The Inter-Party Resistance Against New Voter Register is expected to meet the committee of imminent persons today at an IPAC meeting.

The meeting is expected to discuss issues surrounding the compilation of a new voters' register.

Speaking on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Peter Boamah Otokunor explained that though the meetings will come on they will still demonstrate on Tuesday, 4th of February.

"The meeting with the imminent committee will not change our stance so far as our decision to occupy the Electoral Commission is concerned," he said.

"We remain resolute as a group to defy the authoritarian posture of the Electoral Cmmission of compiling a new voters' register."

He added that the decision by the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters' register is out of place.

A meeting between the inter-party coalition and the committee of imminent persons is expected to come off today at the IPAC meeting.

However, it is uncertain whether the meeting will call a truce between both sides with the compilation of the new voters' register.

The Inter-Party Resistance Against New Voter Register (IPRAN), has petitioned former President Jerry John Rawlings to seek his counsel in its quest to stop the Electoral Commission from compiling a new register ahead of the 2020 elections.

A delegation of the coalition, led by Peoples National Convention (PNC) National Chairman, Bernard Mornah met the former President at his office on Tuesday.

He said the EC’s "refusal to listen to wise counsel particularly from persons who have participated in the electoral process for a very long time has led to very painful but wrong decisions”.

The coalition said while the EC may have a mandate to compile a new register, the mandate must be exercised within reasonable limits.

Detailing the group’s stance against the EC’s proposal, the PNC Chairman said during the last local government elections there was a 0.6 failure rate with the use of the existing biometric equipment and questioned why based on such a high-efficiency rate, the Commission would wish to replace equipment and also do away with 17 million names in the voter database.

They have also petitioned former President John Agyekum Kuffour and other prominent diplomats in the country.