The Member of Parliament for Ellembele is threatening to place an injunction on the referendum and the district level elections in December if anomalies detected in the voters’ register are not addressed.
Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah issued the threat in an interview with GhanaCrusader.com in Parliament last Friday.
He noted that characteristic being exhibited by the EC would stir major upheaval in the Ellembele Constituency if the Commission fails to take deliberate action to address the issue.
Mr. Kofi Buah explained that during the limited registration exercise, 6,300 people were supposed to have been captured in the register in the Ellembele constituency.
According to him, when the register was opened in June for persons to go and verify their names, approximately 5,000 people who registered in the limited registration exercise could not find their names.
He said, “These were people who registered and duly issued with voter ID cards. Yet when the register was opened for verification, their names were mysteriously missing from the document.”
“There has been series of demonstrations and a formal petition was submitted to the District Electoral Commission in Ellembele but nothing has been done about the anomaly as yet.”
The irritated MP warned that if the EC fails to address these concerns and goes ahead to attempt to conduct the referendum and the District Assembly elections in the Ellembele Constituency, they will pull the brakes on the exercise with court injunction.
“I will go court and place an injunction on the entire exercise until the proper thing is done to get every legally registered Ghanaian on the Electoral Voters’ Register to vote,” he said.
Ghanaians are set to go the polls for the district level elections to elect assembly members and unit committee members in December.
On the same date, voters are expected to vote in a referendum on the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs).
