The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to provide the published names and pictures of presiding officers to presidential candidates.
According to the General Secretary of the CPP, Kwame Nkrumah Botsio, the Public Elections Regulations, 2020 (C.I. 127), specifically Section 6, Subsection B, mandate the EC to furnish a copy of these names to political parties and candidates contesting in elections.
He explained that while the EC has provided these details to constituency branches, the regulation also stipulates that a registered political party or even an individual qualified to vote may raise objections to the presiding officers.
Mr Botsio added that this list is not solely for the consumption of political parties at the constituency level but the parliamentary aspirants and the presidential candidates are also supposed to have copies.
“The primary stakeholders in this election are the 19 million voters—the ordinary citizens who have the right to know what is happening,” he said on JoyNews.
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He emphasised that public suspicions surrounding the EC are not exclusive to the Commission but extend to political parties as well.
Ghanaians will go to the polls on Saturday, December 7, 2024, to elect a new leader as President Nana Akufo-Addo steps down after completing his constitutionally limited second term in office.
As usual, candidates are touting their visions and ideas, making promises, and jabbing each other. All this makes for a bustling election season.
As has been the case, the election is a contest between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), as the two have shared the presidential seat for the last 32 years.
Key issues that Ghana’s eligible voters will be considering include youth unemployment, education, the economy, corruption, and healthcare.