Former President John Dramani Mahama has urged the Electoral Commission (EC), to resolve anomalies and challenges identified in the ongoing exhibition of the voters register.
He has also called on the Commission to furnish all political parties with the full register being used for the exercise.
Speaking to journalists in Bole in the Savannah Region after checking his name in the register at the District Assembly Polling Station, Former President Mahama said the EC needs to sit up and ensure that a credible register is compiled for the 2020 elections.
“In some places there are complaints that for the new people who registered, they are identified only by their new features, and I think that their other biometric features have not been captured yet and so the fear is that in future if we are holding an election that’s using the biometric registration devices they might not be able to vote because their biometric features will not be in the BVBs.”
“That’s something the electoral commission must look at. Aside from that my party complained and other parties we have heard they don’t have the full complex of the register. They have parts of it, so it makes it difficult for them to monitor and follow the exhibition exercise. These are things that the electoral commission is enjoined to do and so they (EC) need to sit up,” he said.
He denied that criticising the EC meant disliking anyone.
“The political parties are the main stakeholders in the EC’s work in elections. And so the political parties have an interest in making sure that the elections are held and held with high integrity. And so when we criticize the EC, it’s not because we dislike anybody in the EC but it’s because we want the EC to get up and do a good job so that all of us can be proud of the Commission.”
