NDC's allegations of discrepancies in the voters register is a grand scheme to court public sympathy - Justin Kodua

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua, has asserted that allegations of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regarding discrepancies in the 2024 provisional voters register is a grand scheme to court public sympathy in an election year.

At a news conference on Thursday, September 19, 2024, Justin Kodua said the claims by the NDC are unjustifiable due to their inability to provide evidence to back their claims.

He questioned why they had still not submitted evidence of the alleged discrepancies it had found in the register.

"However, what many Ghanaians and the NPP cannot comprehend, is why the NDC has still not submitted to the EC, detailed information of its so-called irregularities, discrepancies and unauthorised manipulation of the provisional register despite several appeals by the E.C. For instance, in Page 2 of their petition to the EC, the NDC stated emphatically that they have uncovered evidence of Two Hundred and Forty-Three Thousand, Five Hundred and Forty (243,540) illegal transfers, Three Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven (3,957) deleted names of voters, as well as over Fifteen Thousand unidentified voter transfer paths in the provisional register.

"Yet, thirteen days after the NDC first met the EC on September 6, 2024, they have still not provided a single document to authenticate any of these allegations," he noted.

He continued," We ask, is this not interesting? Indeed, if the NDC have any evidence of illegal transfers, why have they not submitted evidence for such an illegality to be reversed by the EC? We believe strongly that the nationwide demonstration by the NDC would have been justified had the EC failed to act after receiving evidence from the NDC on the alleged irregularities and discrepancies."

He accused the NDC of having a history of making allegations without substantive evidence.

"As many of you will attest to, the NDC has a despicable reputation of throwing allegations around without any substantive evidence. It should be recalled that following the close of polls for the 2020 general elections, the NDC through several media engagements, declared former President Mahama winner (video attached) and in some instances, warned the EC not to change the verdict of the people. After the EC’s official declaration of the results, the NDC suddenly alleged rigging, and urged their supporters to demonstrate on the streets and also refrain from recognising President Akufo-Addo as winner of the elections," he explained.

He further noted that the identification of errors in a provisional register does not require independent forensic audit as being demanded.

On Tuesday, September 17, 2024, the NDC embarked on a nationwide protest dubbed 'Enough is Enough Demo 'against the Electoral Commission calling for an independent forensic audit of the provisional voter register for the 2024 general elections.

They cited inconsistencies in the voter’s register in the lead-up to the 2024 election.

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