The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has made an appeal to the Electoral Commission (EC) to consider extending the ongoing limited voter registration exercise.

This request stems from challenges faced by the Commission, which have hindered some eligible voters from registering.

The EC initiated the voter registration exercise across all district offices in September, with the scheduled end date being today, October 2. During a recent press briefing, the EC announced that it had successfully registered over 600,000 eligible voters.

Nevertheless, Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Mustapha Gbande, emphasized the importance of ensuring that all eligible applicants have the opportunity to register before the exercise concludes.

He pointed out that in some registration centers, people have waited in queues for days, and it is crucial that they are given the chance to register within the allotted timeframe.

“If you go to some centres, there are people who have been there in the last four days trying to register, and they have taken care of their own feeding and accommodation and one would expect that the EC would have a space for these people to be registered at least before the exercise comes to an end. So we expect that there should be places where they bring in more machines and workforce to ensure that they finish the people in the queue without having to send them back home.”

“If you go to a place like Asuogyaman, people have been in queues in the last four days, and the arrangements they have there is that you come and write your name and when it is time, then you come and register and so all these people assume that they are in a queue.”