{"id":140556,"date":"2015-08-04T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=140556"},"modified":"2015-08-04T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:20:46","slug":"ndc-targets-1-5-million-members-in-biometric-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/08\/ndc-targets-1-5-million-members-in-biometric-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC targets 1.5 million members in biometric registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is hoping to register 1.5 million Ghanaians as it embarks on massive biometric membership registration drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The the party has already registered over 500,000 members in\u00a0biometric registration exercise which commenced a week ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;HAvfrmtrZul3CcT4o7pI6QPEJU0ZI7A8&#8243;]Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDC, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that the Volta Region has recorded the highest number.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said \u201cwe\u2019ve been registering for sometime now, so we\u2019ve gotten a sizable number of our party members registered. We are doing just around one million members now and the breakdown is roughly that Volta Region is leading by over 150,000; they are getting close to 200,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Northern Region is approaching 150,000, followed closely by the Brong Ahafo with 120,000 and then Western Region around 100,000. Eastern region is also around 100,000 and Ashanti Region is around 100.000, according to the General Secretary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asiedu Nketia said they anticipate that the number will double in the shortest possible time because the party has fixed a closing date for the exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo overall we are targeting 1.5 million of registered members who want to discharge their obligations and responsibilities as full members of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NDC has adopted some measures to increase it&#8217;s membership base nationwide especially in the stongholds of the opposition NPP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NDC early this year launched &#8220;<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/10\/well-get-1-million-votes-in-ashanti-ndc-to-nana-addo\/#sthash.qZfG8krz.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">1 million votes for Mahama<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&#8221; in the Ashanti region and <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/25\/ndc-deserve-half-of-eastern-votes-ofosu-ampofo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agenda 50\/50<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in the Eastern Region with the hope of increasing the party&#8217;s votes in the two regions in the 2016 general election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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