The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Effutu constituency wants the Electoral Commission (EC) to conduct a comprehensive audit of the 2024 Effutu constituency voter’s register.
The NDC is accusing the EC of bloating the register with over three thousand new voters.
According to the NDC, the voter transfer exercise recorded over seven thousand voters but after careful examination of the register, they noticed that over three thousand new voters have been added to the register promoting a call for action.
The NDC alleges that the 2020 elections saw the Effutu voter’s register bloated where over twenty thousand new voters were added thus accusing the EC of plotting to rig the elections in favour of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Parliamentary candidate of the NDC in the Effutu constituency, James Kofi Annan at a press conference criticised the EC over the move while calling for the removal of persons who have been illegally transferred onto the register and possibly a re-exhibition of the voter’s register to address the challenges.
“At the end of this exercise, the electoral commission recorded a total of six thousand two hundred and eighteen voters who transferred their votes into the Effutu constituency according to the daily printout from the Electoral Commission that was given to all parties. This brought the total of the official voter transfer to seven thousand and twenty-four which is the highest recorded in the Central Region.”
“Upon examination, during the voter’s exhibition, we noticed that the total number of voters transferred has jumped to 9,897, which means that the electoral commission has secretly transferred 3,009 votes to the register at the blind side of the NDC. We have also discovered that over 70% of all transfers done at the Effutu constituency were done without any basis. This is illegal and a mere importation of voters into the constituency.”
“It is interesting to know that the Effutu constituency which has a much lower general population rather recorded the highest number of voter transfers in the entire Central Region beating off competition from Awutu Senya East, and Gomoa East among others. We want the EC to do the needful as we have petitioned them. We want a comprehensive audit done to the 2024 Effutu voter’s register, a re-exhibition of the register and deletion of all those who have been transferred unto the register,” the NDC PC said.
By Calvis Tetteh