'With or without new register, your time is up' - NPP tells Mahama
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has indicated their readiness to go into this year’s elections “with or without” a new voters’ register.
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At a press conference in Accra Thursday morning, Campaign Director of the party, Mr Peter Mac Manu, said they wanted President John Mahama to know that they were ready to lead a campaign to get him removed from office.
The NPP has been agitating for a new register alleging that the current one was 'bloated' with names of foreign nationals and minors and therefore should not be used for the upcoming general elections.
The Electoral Commission has, however, rejected the call for a new register, stressing that the arguments for a new one by the opposition party were not “convincing.”
Listen to Mac Manu in the audio attached below
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Replying the EC’s position at the press conference at their headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra, the NPP accused the EC of shunning their argument and rather siding with those from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) who want the register maintained.
They, therefore, accused the EC of planning to manipulate the upcoming elections saying the chairperson, Mrs Charlotte Osei, was being quick to jump on the NDC’s “propaganda bandwagon.”
“We have a special message for President John Mahama and his NDC. Please listen to this message carefully. With or without a new register, your time is up, change is coming. The Ghanaian people cannot wait to get rid of you with their vote,” Mr Mac Manu said.
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He said: “…people are not prepared to have this years’ election stolen from them. The Ghanaian people are fed up with the eight years of needles suffering under the NDC. Ghanaians have had enough of your incompetence, corruption, deceit and have risen to the challenge for change.”
According to him, many Ghanaians have decided to take personal and collective ownership of the change that is coming and ready to protect the ballot at the various polling stations and NPP was “steady and ready to lead the people on this charge for change whether register is new or old.”
He said the collective wisdom of all political parties and religious bodies should not be ignored by the EC and that the call for a new register was not a party political matter but an issue in the supreme interest of Ghana.
Writer's email: enoch.frimpong@graphic.com.gh