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Ablekuma Central New Patriotic Party (NPP) Youth Organiser Oliver Ofori Baah has opined that conducting a forensic audit into our register as requested by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not feasible.
He asserted that the request for a forensic audit means the NDC is not interested in having the elections conducted come December 7, 2024.
He said the Electoral Commission (EC) has demonstrated fairness, transparency, accountability, and openness.
He indicated that the NDC had not been consistent because in the past when the NPP called for an audit, the NDC had its leadership, including chairman Asiedu Nketiah, and the presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama, asked that the EC be allowed to conduct it independently without any interference.
“When the NPP called for an audit of the register in the past, the NDC and its leadership, including Asiedu Nketiah and John Mahama, said that was an interference with the work of the EC. But today, they are calling for a forensic audit. The EC has admitted and made the corrections. If we are to accept and conduct the forensic audit, then the NDC does not want the December 7 elections conducted,” he added.
“The media was invited to the Inter-Party Advisory Committee and presented its case and allowed the parties to submit their views, and the EC assured the stakeholders that it would organise free, fair, and transparent polls with a credible register.”
He said the NDC is only engaging in these things because it is aware of electoral defeat.
He maintained that the forensic will take not less than six months, and we have about two months into the next elections; hence, the audit suggested by the NDC was needless and a waste of time.
