Members of political parties forming the Inter-Party Resistance Against New Voters’ Register (IPRNA) today embarked on the third and last demonstration in a series of three demonstrations to mount pressure on the electoral commission of Ghana in a bid to make them rescund their decision of compiling a new voters’ register.
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Today’s edition, dubbed “W)KP3N3” (Ga for “We won’t agree”) started from the Kawukudi park and included members of the coalition the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peoples National Convention (PNC), Eagle Party (EP) , Convention Peoples Party (CPP) and the All Peoples Congress (APC) marched through the 37 military roundabout to the headquarters of the electoral commission at Ridge in Accra, where a petition was presented to the electoral commission.
According to reports, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, on Monday, after an inconclusive IPAC meeting between the electoral commission and all political parties last week , argued that the EC will only be able to complete compiling a new register by November 8, a month to the election; a development he believes has the propensity to elicit a constitutional crisis.
Whiles the demonstrators intended to use the Jubilee House route to the premises of the electoral commission after presenting a petition to the presidency, a heavy security presence at the roundabout the led to the Jubilee Houses(Presidency) forced them to use an alternative route to the final destination; headquarters of the electoral commission.
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Stalwarts of the various political parties forming the coalition who were spotted at the demonstration include the chairman of NDC, Mr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDC; chairman of the PNC, Mr.Bernard Mornah and Leader of the All Peoples’ Congress, Dr. Hassan Ayariga.
Today’s demonstrations marks the climax of the the first two demonstrations organized in Tamale and Kumasi.
