{"id":1203939,"date":"2022-09-14T07:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/ec-on-right-path-with-decision-to-abolish-guarantor-system-npp\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T07:06:24","slug":"ec-on-right-path-with-decision-to-abolish-guarantor-system-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/ec-on-right-path-with-decision-to-abolish-guarantor-system-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"EC on right path with decision to abolish guarantor system &#8211; NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has thrown its weight behind the Electoral Commission (EC)\u2019s decision to abolish the guarantor system for the voters\u2019 registration exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The party said this is the best to clean the register.<\/p>\n<p>In view of this, the Director of Elections for the NPP, Evans Nimako has questioned the motives of those who are against the move.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"10031595867\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-30-at-151543-1.jpg\" alt=\"EC on right path with decision to abolish guarantor system - NPP\" class=\"wp-image-10031595867 lazy\"  data- title=\"EC on right path with decision to abolish guarantor system - NPP\"\/><figcaption>Voters\u2019 registration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why you must have an issue with this arrangement to ensure that we have a register that captures those who must be on it. We think that the EC is on the right path,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has announced that it will no longer use the guarantor system in the upcoming voter registration exercise.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-container-4 wp-block-gallery-3 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"10031595869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-30-at-151543-4.jpg\" alt=\"EC on right path with decision to abolish guarantor system - NPP\" class=\"wp-image-10031595869 lazy\"  data- title=\"EC on right path with decision to abolish guarantor system - NPP\"\/><figcaption>Voters\u2019 registration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As a result, the only source of document for registration will be the Ghana Card.<\/p>\n<p>This will take effect with the maturation of a yet-to-be laid constitutional instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chairman of the Commission in charge of operations, Samuel Tettey, told Journalists at the Commission\u2019s \u201cLet the Citizen Know\u201d encounter on Thursday, September 8.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>However, some Ghanaians and the main opposition party in the country, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have opposed it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>According to the party, the decision will disenfranchise many Ghanaians who do not have the Ghana Card.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has thrown its weight behind the Electoral Commission (EC)\u2019s decision to abolish the guarantor system for the voters\u2019 registration exercise. The party said this is the best to clean the register. In view of this, the Director of Elections for the NPP, Evans Nimako has questioned the motives of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}