The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Emmanuel Nii Ashie Moore, has clarified that the party's intention to employ drones during the 2024 general elections will exclusively cover constituencies within the Greater Accra Region.

On Wednesday, March 13, Nii Ashie Moore announced a strategic initiative to deploy drones for monitoring the 2024 general elections in the region. The party's objective is to safeguard over two million votes and enhance monitoring mechanisms to prevent potential irregularities.

However, Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, the Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission (EC), expressed opposition to the NDC's plan in a media interview.

During an interview on the Citiuation Room on Citi TV, on Thursday, March 14, Mr. Ashie Moore emphasized that the EC lacks the authority to prohibit the Greater Accra Regional Office of the NDC from utilizing drones to monitor the elections.

Mr. Ashie Moore explained that the decision was made to protect the party's votes and emphasized that the national leadership of the party played no role in the regional decision-making process. He asserted that they do not require approval from the national leadership to execute their plan.

“Let me put it on record that the EC doesn’t have that mandate, power, that right to say that one cannot use drones before, during and after elections in Ghana. There’s no single L. I that regulates that. We have written to the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, when they give us the approval, we are going to use the drones.”

“This is a regional plan and not a national thing. We plan to do within our remit, the 34 constituencies within the Greater Accra Region. This has nothing to do with our party constitution or manifesto. The national may want to do some inputs or some adjustments, we don’t need approval to do those things. All that we want to do is to protect our votes,” he clarified.

“We realised a lot of anomalies during the last exercise [limited voter registration], so we decided that before, during and after 7th December elections we are going to use drones.”