The National Executive Committe (NEC) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has upheld its decision to bar members who registered online but failed to validate their details at polling stations from participating in the upcoming internal elections of the party.
The decision was affirmed at an emergency NEC meeting held by the party at its headquarters on Wednesday.
“NEC actually maintained what the directive was. So, if you registered online and were not able to go and verify as directed, then that situation maintains that you can not vote and be voted…,” Director of Communications of the party, Richard Ahiagbah said.
He further noted that affected persons would not be given another opportunity to validate their details as the timelines for the process had already closed.
“These timelines are a big deal at this point. So, there’s no opportunity,” he said.
However, he indicated that discussions are ongoing on how to reconcile the online and physical registers.
“What conversation is going on is how… we ensure that people who registered online can be vouched for at the polling station,” he said, adding that there could be a register exhibition exercise at polling stations.
The NEC of the party also increased the workload of its polling station election committees ahead of upcoming internal elections.
Richard Ahiagbah explained that the decision followed feedback on earlier guidelines.
“Initially, we were saying… a particular polling station election committee will supervise 10 polling stations, but we have increased that number now to 25 so that we can bring down the number of election committees,” he said.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
