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Director of Elections for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah says it will be a useless venture for the Electoral Commission (EC) to call for presentation from the stakeholders concerning the current voters’ register.

According to him, the presentation is good but it should be done after the EC has finished its investigations into the 5 claims of the opposition NPP to ascertain the need for a fresh voters’ register or do otherwise with the current voters’ register.

Speaking on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Mr Korsah reiterated that the 5 claims which bother on multiple registration, foreign nationals in Ghana’s voters’ register, Minors in voters’ register, as well as scanned pictures in the register and some constituencies having their voter populations between 25 to 75 percent within 4 years cannot be overlooked.

“NPP feels that we have raised a number of issues about the voters’ register and so the presentation which the EC wants to organize in October 29 to 30 should be based on a foundation; Alisa Hotel program is good but it would have been better if the EC first tells stakeholder the purpose of the presentation"

“The Commission should have come out to deny or accept the claims raised by NPP and ask for the way forward from the stakeholders and then add the presentation but now, we are going to do presentation when EC has not investigated our claims…for me, I nearly said it is a useless venture for now; it may be good after some time,” he stressed.

Director of Elections of the NPP’s comment comes on the heels of a publication by the Statesman Newspaper that EC has set October 29 and 30 for two days presentation on the way forward about the current voters’ register.

He maintained that the technical issues raised by some people about the current voters’ register cannot be shortchanged for 20 minutes presentations when the substantive issues have not been addressed by the commission.

He thus wondered why the Electoral Commission has rather not use the moment to investigate the claims by the NPP and other stakeholders to establish the truth in those claims; asserting that the issues surrounding the current voters’ register has been reduced to ‘talkshops’ as they are getting everything wrong.