Why threaten a demo over a forensic audit, if you are clean? – MP slams NPP

Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak, says the threats issued by the New Patriotic Party to demonstrate against the Electoral Commission should it allow for the forensic audit of the register to be conducted affirm the plot to rig the elections.

He was responding to the press conference addressed by General Secretary Justin Koduah Frimpong on Thursday, September 19, 2024.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has served notice to demonstrate against the Electoral Commission if it grants NDC’s request to conduct a forensic audit of the provisional voters’ register.

Justin Frimpong Koduah described the NDC’s position as hypocritical, especially for the forensic audit of the provisional voters’ register by the EC without substantial evidence.

“The NPP will also hit the streets to demonstrate against the Electoral Commission. Then it will also mean that the Electoral Commission is not consistent. Because in 2015, it is the same Electoral Commission told us that they are the body, they have the capacity to ensure that internally, they resolve issues. So, we will ask them, what has changed? ”

Commenting on this, Dr. Apaak stated that if the NPP has nothing to hide or a plot to rig the elections, then it would not be threatening a demonstration against the call for a forensic audit.

He insisted that the EC, as a public institution, must admit to the errors and allow for an independent body to conduct the audit of the register.

He added that the register is not fit for purpose and cannot be used to organise the 2024 general elections.

“Why would a party threaten an institution if it does the right thing: cleans a bloated register? Why would the NPP not be interested in a clean and fit for purpose register? Doesn’t this posture of the NPP confirm, even to a political neophyte, that DMB and NPP are the ultimate beneficiaries of the bloated register?

With the evidence adduced by the NDC, any fair-minded and honest person would come to the conclusion that the register in its current form is not credible. The register can not be fit for purpose.

The EC, as a public institution established by the Constitution, has an obligation to ensure that we have a credible register. This credibility can ONLY be established by an independent audit. Therefore, the EC must do the right thing by allowing an independent audit of the register.”