Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has expressed concern about names of some voters allegedly missing from the electoral roll at a polling station in his hometown, Bole Bamboi.
According to Mr. Mahama, two people including his personal security guard cannot find their names in the register at the Bole Bamboi District polling station in the Bole Bamboi Constituency.
The former president who was speaking to the media after casting his votes took on the Electoral Commission for failing to address issues he and his party had raised about the electoral process.
He believes such anomaly could have been resolved if the commission had taken steps to address their concerns including publishing names of the 30,000 voters it had disqualified from taking part in the General Elections.
“There is a lady who registered here but her name is not in the list. One of my security personnel registered here with me and during the exhibition, we checked and his name was there but when we got here today, his name is not there,” Mr. Mahama said.
“These are some of the little things we kept complaining about. The EC said they have eliminated 30,000 names from the register without saying whose names they were and I said that on the day (of election), people are going to come without knowing that their names have been taken off because if you take off their names you must give reasons why you have done so. My security man might be one of those whose names were taken out,” he added
The NDC’s presidential candidate disclosed subsequently that the issue with his personal security personnel was resolved.
The opposition NDC and its presidential candidate have raised concerns about the electoral processes leading to the polls alleging that the electoral management body is conniving with the governing party to rig the elections, an allegation the EC vehemently rejected on the grounds that it has implemented stringent mechanism that makes it impossible for rigging to occur.
Following the Commission’s disclosure that it had disqualified 30,000 persons from taking part in the 2020 polls as result of irregularities, there were calls for names of the affected persons to be published.
The EC, however, rejected the calls arguing here was no need to publishing the names
