ACCRA: Ghana’s main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party has held countrywide protest demonstration against alleged voter roll irregularities, demanding an independent audit to rid the register of errors for free and fair polls.
Voters in the West African nation will head to the elections on December 7 to elect a successor to President Nana Akufo-Addo, who will quit the office in January following serving the constitutionally mandated 8 years.
The polls will pit former president John Dramani Mahama of the NDC against the incumbent Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia of the ruling New Patriotic Party.
The opposition party leaders stated that the electoral commission unlawfully transferred voters to various voting stations without giving them any information, compromising the integrity of the register.
Thousands of supporters marched through main streets and roads in the Accra, blaring reggae and campaign songs from loudspeakers and calling on world, Ghana’s peace council and religious and civil society groups to intervene over the matter.
NDC party leader Johnson Asiedu Nketia said that he wanted nothing but a free and transparent elections in the country. The leader said that the country’s democracy is on a serious test and they wanted it to prevail.
