Asiedu Nketia disagrees with Akufo-Addo on voters register
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, says demands by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for a new voters register was at best unrealistic and at worst illogical.
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Mr Asiedu Nketia said it is not a convention in the country to replace the voters register after every decade.
He was speaking to Joy News shortly after the party had held its first National Executive Council meeting, last Tuesday.
The NPP flagbearer had said that for a credible election to be held in 2016, the voters register must be changed.
He was convinced the current voters register had been bloated.
According to him, the new voters register figure of 14 million people was far in excess of what it should be, considering the fact that the 2010 population census captured the total number of Ghana's population to be 25 million.
Untenable
However, Johnson Asiedu Nketia said the reasons Nana Akufo-Addo gave for a new voters register were untenable.
He said for Nana Akufo-Addo to compare figures of the 2010 population census to the voters register compiled in 2012 "flies in the face of logic".
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"The call is totally baseless," he said, adding that Nana Akufo-Addo "crucified statistics" in his comparison of the 2010 population census to that of the 2012 voters register.
Population census
He said between 2010, when the population census was conducted, and 2012, when the voters register was compiled, a lot might have changed in the population dynamics, which makes such a demand a moot one.
He argued further that unlike the population census which was conducted by one institution with an inferior technology, the voters register was compiled by different institutions with a superior biometric technology.
He was convinced that figures from the voters register would be far more reliable than that of the population census which Nana Akufo-Addo made reference to.
He stated that to compile a new voters register will be a total waste of the country's meager resources.