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The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as distasteful, actions of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa at an IPAC meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The meeting was over the upcoming limited voter registration exercise proposed by the Commission.<\/p>\n

The NDC had kicked against the organisation of the exercise at the district level.<\/p>\n

Addressing the media last week, the General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia<\/strong><\/span> said the NDC \u201cdiffered very strongly\u201d on the matter and is \u201copposed to any system of registration that will be limited to the district offices of the EC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy General Secretary of the party, Peter Otokunor, in a Citi News<\/strong> interview said Madam Jean Mensah told the NDC officials at the IPAC meeting that she owed them no explanation over the EC\u2019s approach to the exercise and found it disrespectful that Asiedu Nketiah let out laughter while she spoke.<\/p>\n

Otokunor argued that\u00a0the Chairperson\u2019s posturing was fast becoming a threat to the Commission as an institution.<\/p>\n

He insisted that a lot of Ghanaians will be disenfranchised\u00a0if the limited registration exercise is held at the district level.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe argument we have made is that, it would be a tool to disenfranchise the ordinary citizens who have an inalienable right under the laws of the country to exercise their franchise as citizens of this country. When you look at the trials they did last year with the referendum, they did the registration in 47 districts, they estimated 100,00 eligible voters but only 47,000 were recorded. That tells you clearly that a lot more of the people who could have registered did not register,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Asiedu Nketia at the press conference last week stated that \u201cThe parties never agreed with the Electoral Commission [at an IPAC meeting] to limit the limited registration [exercise] to only district centres of the commission.\u201d<\/p>\n