EC denies promising revised voter register within a week

Accra, Ghana - The Electoral Commission of Ghana has disputed claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regarding the release date of the revised 2024 voter register.

 According to the EC, its chairperson, Jean Mensa, never promised to make the revised register available within one week.

In a statement issued on October 8, Deputy Chairperson Samuel Tettey clarified that the revised Provisional Voters Register (PVR) would be provided to political parties and uploaded online within two weeks or earlier.

This contradicts the NDC's announcement that the EC had promised to release the revised register within a week .

The NDC had accepted the EC's supposed promise after the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on October 1.

However, the EC's latest statement sets the record straight, emphasizing that no such one-week deadline was agreed upon.

Find the full statement from EC below.

RE: REVISED PROVISIONAL VOTERS REGISTER TO BE RELEASED WITHIN TWO WEEKS.

The Electoral Commission (EC) has taken note of a statement by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to the effect that the EC promised to make the revised Provisional Voters Register (PVR) available to the Political Parties within a week of the IPAC meeting as follows:

“the Functional Executive Committee of the NDC has deliberated and decided to accept the EC’s promise to release to political parties, the corrected/updated version of the 2024 Provisional Voters Register for scrutiny within one week.”

For the records, the Chairperson of the EC indicated during the televised IPAC meeting that the Commission would provide the Political Parties with the revised PVR and upload it online within two (2) weeks or earlier.

“Nowhere in her statement did the Chairperson indicate that the revised PVR would be made available within a week.”

Source: Lead News Online