The District Assembly Elections scheduled for September 1, is likely to suffer another setback as a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP) is threatening to go to court over the voters register.
According to Mr. Dominic Nsiah Asare, the elections could only be allowed to go ahead if the Electoral Commission tackles the major flaws identified by the NPP that shows that the voters’ register is bloated.
[contextly_sidebar id=”BJGZulbtG6Av0hS0AXwekjOqUUfb5Ymq”]The NPP has petitioned the EC for a revision of the voters’ register, a the governing NDC has described as unfounded.
But speaking to Citi News, Dominic Nsiah Asare maintains that the Electoral Commission must work to clear all doubts before proceeding with the election.
“I don’t think the voters’ register can be used for any other thing because if what they (the NPP) have submitted comes out to be true, it means the voters’ register is incomplete and cannot be used to conduct any election in this country, until they come out with their conclusion on the register, they can’t use the register to conduct any election,” he said.
“If the electoral commission still insists that September 1st elections should still take place, then maybe some few days to the election, we will put an injunction on the election so that it cannot be held just as it was done in the first time,” he added.
If the injunction is upheld, it will be the second time this year’s District Assembly elections would have been suspended.
The election which was initially slated for March 3 2015, was suspended in February when an aspiring assemblyman, Benjamin Eyi Mensah dragged the EC to court after he was denied the opportunity to file his nomination forms.
The EC later sent to Parliament, a new legislation to enable it run the District Assembly Elections.
The law meant to regulate the conduct of the election, Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 89, matured on June 10, 2015.
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By: Pius Amihere Eduku/citifmonline.com/Ghana