The Brong-Ahafo youth organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe is calling on the police to immediately arrest the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for admitting that the party and other political parties are responsible for registering minors.
Johnson Asiedu Nketia says all political parties, including his party, must accept responsibility for a bloated voters’ register, a source of intense, controversial debate.
“We are the people who create the problems and we turn to blame the Electoral Commission,” Asiedu Nketia said in an interview on Joy News channel’s current affairs programme, The Pulse.
He said the desire for an “unfair advantage” by politicians is at the heart of the political tensions in this country during elections.
He finds it hypocritical that politicians heap the blame on their rivals. He said the political parties after crying foul about the credibility of the register, turn around to register minors when presented with the opportunity.
Asiedu Nketia wants political parties to back off from pressuring the Electoral Commission.
“Most of the problems are created by political parties [because of] their desire to outwit each other”, he continued.
“That is why I always have problems when all the blame is being heaped on the Electoral commission; there is no way the EC by itself can conduct such exercise without the cooperation of political party agents”.
But describing Asiedu Nketiah’s assertion as a criminal act, Kwame Baffoe asked him to surrender himself to the police.
He said he could not fathom why the NDC’s scribe, who once insisted that the voters register is clean, will make this sudden u-turn.
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