The Electoral Commission(EC) has denied that it is inserting the name of one of the NPP’s aspirants into the Assin North voters register a few days to the by-election.
According to a statement by the EC, a person does not need to be a registered voter in a particular constituency to enable him or her to contest elections in that constituency.
“For the records, the EC has not received any such request from the NPP to transfer the votes of any person. This allegation is false and a figment of the author’s imagination. As usual it is aimed at maligning the integrity of the Electoral Commission.
“Per the Constitution, simply hailing from a constituency entitles a person to contest an election in that constituency so long as the person is, a Ghanaian, twenty-one years and above, of sound mind and a registered voter,” parts of the document read.
The NDC last Sunday revealed that the NPP aspirant Charles Opoku was not a registered voter in the Assin North Constituency, adding that the “illegal” move will help the aspirant contest.
Read the full response of the EC below:
