Election 2020: New voters' register resistance will affect NDC's chances - Political scientist

A Political Science lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in the Central Region, Dr. Isaac Brako, says the unrelenting protest and resistance by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the intended new voters' register would affect the party’s prospects of winning back power in the December 7 polls.

He says it would largely affect the party, especially their incumbent Members of Parliament as well as parliamentary candidates at orphan constituencies if attention is not shifted towards mobilising the party’s supporters to massively partake in the exercise when it commences.

The UEW lecturer made this known on Yensempa on Onua FM on Thursday, June 11.

He admonished the party’s leadership to desist from disorganising and inducing the party supporters against the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) in compiling the new voters' register.

Dr. Isaac Brako was commenting on a recent statement made by NDC’s National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, at the party’s 28th anniversary to the effect that the party is still against the compilation of a new voters’ register.

The Political Scientist advised the NDC leadership to begin advocating and mobilizing the party supporters for the registration exercise instead of persistently “misleading” them and flagging the chances of the party in the upcoming general elections.

He noted that Ghana has over the years experienced two parties in power – NDC and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) – hence the need for NDC to work assiduously in preaching the party’s new policies to the general public rather than protesting against the new voter’s register.

Additionally, Mr. Brako said the EC is mandated by the 1992 Constitution to compile a new register, which is not the first time it is doing so.

He thus called on NDC leadership to advocate and actively engage its supporters from the grassroots in participating in the intended registration exercise especially at the party’s strongholds.

Getting the party supporters to fully partake in the exercise, according to him, would enhance the party’s chances in winning back all the parliamentary seats it lost to the NPP in the 2016 elections.