In accordance with a court ruling, representatives of the Electoral Commission (EC) in the Ashanti Region have started the process of removing some 580 names from the Manhyia South voter register.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the constituency, which found anomalies in the voter registration during the voter transfer exercise, voiced concerns about these developments, prompting this move. The parties went on to seek legal advice.
Under the direction of Her Worship Deborah Gyaawa Donkor, the Kumasi Magistrate Court issued a ruling on Tuesday directing the impacted voters to be restored to their former constituencies.
Alhaji Haruna Alhassan, the Manhyia South Constituency Secretary for the NPP, stressed the party’s commitment to seeing that the court’s order is carried out in an interview with Citi News, which is based in Accra.
He asked NPP strongholds elsewhere to examine their voters information for errors and have them corrected.
He stated:
“It was during the transfer that we the NPP in the Manhyia South constituency became conscious about certain things relative to the transfer of votes to the constituency.
“We became conscious because the transfers to the constituency were not normal to us but per the LI there is nothing we could have done. During the exhibition, we followed up and found out that about five or six polling stations out of the 107 polling stations we have in Manhyia South there have been some abnormal transfers.”
“For example, we had about 150 transfers to St Loius Training College of Education so we sent the matter to court and we appeared before the court five times…So eventually yesterday the court ordered that 580 people who were transferred to Manhyia South during the transfer period should be sent back to where their votes were originally. We are going to follow up on that and make sure that the right thing is done,”
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