About 20,000 residents from across the Volta Region are expected to throng the streets of Ho to participate in tomorrow’s demonstration against the Electoral Commission (EC).
The demonstration led by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) seeks among other things to compel the EC to rectify anomalies and discrepancies identified by the opposition party, heading into the 2024 December elections.
The region’s party Secretary, James Gunu made this known in an interview with Joy News at the Volta Regional Secretariat in Ho, on Monday.
He explained that activists of other political parties who have also raised their voices against the anomalies identified would join the demonstration together with residents from all walks of life.
“The number of protestors we are expecting will be getting to 20,000. You know it is our [NDC] World Bank, our stronghold, so a lot of people [will turn up]. Let us expect beyond 20,000 to pour into the streets of Ho tomorrow to demonstrate against the Jean Mensah-led electoral commission,” he said.
He said all requirements have been met, including police clearance, in anticipation of a successful protest tomorrow, in a bid to ensure, free, fair, and credible general elections.
Mr. Gunu stressed that the NDC needed to hit the streets as several calls on the EC to rectify the anomalies fell on deaf ears, adding that the “register has been compromised.”
“We can not go into an election with a register whose integrity has been compromised by the Electoral Commission. They have messed up the entire register and we will pour out to the streets tomorrow in Ho to express our displeasure about the conduct of the Jean Mensah-led Electoral Commission”, he noted.
He outlined that there were discrepancies in the provisional register provided to the NDC and that of the EC during the just-ended voters’ register exhibition, insisting “that made the whole thing very serious”.
He said the NDC ultimately seeks to prevent being disenfranchised as experienced in the 2020 general elections, preventing some electorates from participating in the democratic exercise.
“We experienced a similar thing in 2020, where many of our people went to the voting center and their names could not be found in the register. That was what affected Richard Ahiagba, but him being an NPP person, they used a pen to write his name in the register and allowed him to vote.
“Where the majority of the people, these poor people who woke up at dawn, went and queued at the polling station were not allowed to vote. We don’t want the same thing to happen again, and we will do everything possible to resist,” he concluded.
Source: myjoyonline.com
