The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Youth Authority has wondered why the 2016 Flag-bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo would claim the voter register is “bloated” and yet not have any problem from the fact that Legislators of his party won their seats based on the same allegedly bloated register.
“You lost elections three times at the polling stations and ones in the Supreme Court. You still go about crying the voter register is over bloated. And you can't point out who in your supposedly bloated register is not supposed to be there.
“Meanwhile your party has sitting MPs who won from this same register and that you don't have a problem with? Nana Abr3. ?#?JM? till January 2021,” Mubarak wrote on his Facebook wall.
Mubarak’s comment was in response to Akufo-Addo’s address to party supporters in the UK, where he said: “The present voters register that we have in Ghana is bloated and anomalous and there is an urgent need to make sure we get a new voters register before the next election.”
The Electoral Commission has come out to refute the former Attorney General’s claim. Its Public Affairs Director Christian Owusu Parry told Paa Kwesi Asare on Starr Today, that the voters register is not in any way bloated and very healthy for the 2016 elections.
“No, we disagree with any assertion that the register as we have at the moment is bloated. The register is not in any way bloated,” Owusu Parry said Monday.
He added that: “If anybody suggests that the register as we have it is bloated, then I am surprised because it is not supported by the statistical figures that we have”.
