EC failed to convene IPAC meeting over voter’s register exhibition – PNC

Janet Nabla, General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC), has voiced concerns with the EC’s inability to call a meeting of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) prior to announcing the exhibition.

“The exhibition exercise is fine, but I don’t know if it’s because this one is not political, that’s why the Electoral Commission has not called an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting to educate us on some of these matters so that we can, in turn, educate our members. I am thinking that this may be because it is non-partisan.”

In advance of the District Level Elections (DLE), the Electoral Commission announced during a press conference on Wednesday that it will exhibit the provisional voter registration from Friday, November 3, 2023, to Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

The possible stress that the voter registration exhibition exercise may place on its people has been highlighted by the People’s National Convention (PNC).

In a Citi FM interview with Eyewitness News, Janet Nabla, the General Secretary of the PNC, expressed regret that the exercise will cost the party money.

This is because each polling place will display the register, which means that a party representative must be present at each centre.

She revealed that the party is still having difficulty paying members who participated in the recently completed limited voter registration drive, and that sending agents to every polling place in the nation will make the party’s current issues worse.

“Even with the registration at the district offices, majority of our people who went even wanted us to pay them at the end of the day and payment was becoming a big problem for our people. And now the polling centres have come, and it is even going to compound our problems because it is five days, and you won’t ask somebody to leave their work and go and stay there [at the centres] for nothing. The person is bound to ask you for money, and you will have to pay and that is another headache.”

Source: Ghanatodayonline.com