{"id":362592,"date":"2017-10-17T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=362592"},"modified":"2017-10-17T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:02:12","slug":"ndc-scraps-biometric-register-will-register-members-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/ndc-scraps-biometric-register-will-register-members-manually\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC scraps biometric register, will register members manually"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has officially announced that it has scrapped its biometric register, and will be returning to the manual process of registering members of the party.<\/p>\n
The party had hinted of this move in recent months, with Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the party, Ade Coker, announcing the party’s intention during the party\u2019s unity walk.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”NkURVrpivXlbe7hvvjxY4rl1fPXG3Wlb”]Addressing the media on Tuesday, the party’s National Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, stated that the National Executive Committee had unanimously agreed to scrap the register as it was deemed not credible enough.<\/p>\n
He also suggested that, recommendations made by the Kwesi Botchwey Committee, which was set up to probe NDC’s loss in the 2016 elections, had factored into the decision as well.<\/p>\n
“In line with the wishes of the majority of the members of the National Democratic Congress, and in the wake of recommendations made by the election review committee chaired by Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, the National Executive Committee, which is the highest decision-making body after Congress, voted unanimously for the scrapping of the register which was used to conduct our internal elections last year,” Kofi Portuphy said.<\/p>\n
“The register, which was meant to be a biometric one, did not meet the standards required to make it qualified to be a biometric register. NEC has decided that we should adopt a manual process of capturing the names of members at all branches nationwide.”<\/p>\n
Portuphy stated that, the registration would take place “between November and December [of 2017]” which would be followed by “branch elections in the last week of January 2018”<\/p>\n