The General
Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP),
John Boadu says the party will resist any attempt by the National
Identification Authority (NIA) to do a mop-up in areas they had challenges
during the initial Ghana Card registration.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of an
Inter-Party Advisory Committee(IPAC) meeting held at the Electoral Commission
on Wednesday, John Boadu said, “I disagree with the position that they will do
a mop-up in some few areas they think they were unable to do and if I want to
be political about it.”
He explained that, “If you consider the
number of people who have not yet received their cards in Central Region,
Ashanti Region, Eastern Region and Greater Accra alone constitute about 68 per
cent of those who have not received their cards yet”.
All the other regions, the 12 regions constitute
just around 32 per cent. So if you want to talk about connivance with the NIA
to disenfranchise people, we the NPP will lose a lot, so if you have four of
our strongholds constitute 68 per cent who should be complaining? It is we the
NPP who should be complaining”.
Mr Boadu added that, “If you take these four regions
in question, we have 45 per cent of the total population who have not yet been
registered. To the extent that about one million people in the Ashanti Region
have not been registered. So any attempt by the NIA to do a mop-up without
doing a mass registration will not sit well with us”.
Taking a swipe at people who say the governing
NPP is in connivance with the NIA to disenfranchise people, Mr Boadu said, “For
anybody to think that we are rather in connivance with NIA begs the question. I
do not think that they even understand what they are talking about.”
-starrfmonline.com
