The party began the manual re-registration of its members in December 2017, when it decided to abandon its biometric register after claims that some non-NDC members were on the register.

“The National Democratic Congress (NDC) wishes to remind all party supporters and sympathizers that the National   Registration Exercise of its members officially ends on Wednesday February 28, 2018,” a statement from the NDC and signed by its General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia said.

[contextly_sidebar id=”1BDXSgs3yjAS9EWH1GAxTcTeJXhWGbTl”]The NDC in the statement also encouraged members and sympathizers of the party to “endeavour to go to their designated branches where the exercise is being conducted to register before the closing date.”

“The party seizes this opportunity to thank all comrades for the enthusiasm with which the exercise has been embraced and, assures them of the commitment to reorganize as the NDC continues to prepare to recapture power in 2020,” the statement added.

NDC biometric woes

The party scrapped its biometric register to pave way for re-registration following complaints that some non-NDC members were on the register.

The NDC, prior to the election in 2016, commenced the registration of its members through a biometric system targeting to capture about 1.5 million members of the party.

Despite the fact that it was only put together in 2016, several members of the opposition party have blamed breaches in the biometric register for the party’s embarrassing loss in the 2016 polls

Below is the full statement from the NDC:

NDC NATIONAL REGISTRATION EXERCISE ENDS NEXT WEEK WEDNESDAY

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) wishes to remind all party supporters and sympathizers that the National   Registration Exercise of its members officially ends on Wednesday February 28, 2018.

The party encourages all members and sympathizers to endeavour to go to their designated Branches where the exercise is being conducted to register before the closing date.

The party seizes this opportunity to thank all comrades for the enthusiasm with which the exercise has been embraced and, assures them of the commitment to reorganize as the NDC continues to prepare to recapture power in 2020.

Signed

Hon. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah

General Secretary

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In his view, Ghanaians have clearly noticed that the NPP lied to win power, for which reason they are messing up in their management of the country.

Despite suggestions that the NDC administration led by John Dramani Mahama caused its own defeat due to the various corruption scandals and poor management of the economy, some of the party’s top officials consistently walk in the belief that the over one million voters who gave the NPP victory, were deceived by the NPP into voting for them.

Mr. Asiedu Nketia says the NPP peddled a lot of lies during the electioneering period to lure Ghanaians, adding that since coming into office, the NPP administration has done virtually the opposite of what it promised.

[contextly_sidebar id=”fKyzKeSe8CY2roN67ds9vgE6TAZgALqp”]Mr. Asiedu Nketia, who believed the NDC was very truthful to Ghanaians during their tenure of office, is thus certain that they would be able to snatch power from the governing party should elections be conducted today.

According to him, Ghanaians have lost hope in the NPP and would overwhelmingly vote for the NDC.

“What NPP government has done is making Ghanaians lose hope in them. So I am of the hope that even if elections are conducted today, NDC would win. I do know that some NPP members are unhappy with the current state of the country.”

“During the campaign, they made a lot of false promises, including promising heaven saying everything will be free. There are a lot of people in the NPP that would vote for NDC if elections were conducted today because they now know that NDC told them the truth. For the NPP government when prices of fuel go up, they say it has gone down. If you lie for power, this will be your end,” he added.

The NDC General Secretary made these claims in an interview on Asempa FM’s late political programme, dubbed Ekosii Sen on Wednesday, January 3, 2018.

Nuisance taxes to be repealed

The NPP while in opposition promised to repeal a number of taxes they described as nuisance taxes. After assuming office, only a few taxes were reviewed.

The NPP also promised to implement the Free Senior High School programme which they have done.

Meanwhile, other promises including the one-district one-factory, one-village one-dam, one-constituency one-one million dollars are yet to be implemented.

Corruption scandals

The first year of the New Patriotic Party’s administration has been rocked by a number of corruption allegations including the BOST contaminated fuel scandal, allegations of corruption by A-Plus against the two deputy chiefs of staff, allegations of conflict of interest against the Finance Minister over the issuance of a Bond, and recently the allocation of GHc800, 000 for the creation of a website for the Special Development Ministry.

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