Go and re-register —PPP’s Charles Owusu tells disgruntled voters

kencitymediagh
Jul 22, 2016
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A communication team member of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Mr. Charles Owusu has urged non-NHIS cards registrants whose names have also been deleted from the voters register to stop complaining and go to the Electoral Commission’s office at all the Districts to re-register, if they want a change in government this year.

He said no amount of lamentations by the affected electorates will bring the change in government many Ghanaians are yearning for.

“If you go to the Exhibition Centre to verify your name and they tell you that your name is deleted from the register go to the District office and register. Don’t complain. Make sure that your name is captured in the voters register so you can vote,” he advised.

According to him, the only way to realize the change is to have a voter ID card and being able to vote.

The ongoing voter’s exhibition exercise has been characterized by several challenges and agitations across the country.

There are reports across the country of some electorates complaining bitterly about their names being deleted from the voters register, even though they did use NHIS cards as proof of identification to register during the 2012 registration exercise.

They have accused EC of deliberately deleting their names from the voters register in order to disenfranchise them.

Speaking on Oman FM’s political analysis programme “Boiling Point” Charles Owusu, who described the complaints as needless argued that Ghanaians should have anticipated the challenges which has characterized the ongoing exhibition exercise because of lack of transparency in the operations of EC headed by Madam Charlotte Osei.

Charles Owusu, who is full of expectation of an imminent change in government this year, however said the change will only be realized by voting process.

“We cannot be shouting “change change” in our homes, “change change” on airwaves if we don’t vote. I’m saying that we can only change incompetent President Mahama and his administration by participating in this year’s election,” he said.

According to him, God had already played his part in this year’s election by changing the current administration in the spiritual realms, but said it is up to Ghanaians to go through voting process to affirm the intention of God for the country.

He called on Ghanaians to resist all the machinations being employed by EC to deny the country of the change in government.

Story By: Michael Creg Afful