Greater than 100 polling officers, district officers and workers of the opposition New Patriotic Occasion within the Yendi constituency have petitioned the celebration’s basic secretary, demanding a direct audit of paperwork submitted as a part of an ongoing inner celebration train.
Petitioners argued that the shape initially crammed out to be declared the uncontested winner was not the identical doc presently used within the remaining abstract with regional representatives.
In accordance with the petitioners, elections weren’t held in some districts and polling stations as a result of the affected executives had been accredited to take workplace unopposed.
They defined that they’d duly accomplished and submitted a type to enter their names on the official abstract sheet to be confirmed as winners, however argued that the knowledge contained within the abstract relied upon didn’t mirror the unique submission made by the Electoral District Committee.
In a petition addressed to the Normal Secretary in Accra, the affected members expressed what they described as “deep concern and frustration” that names, together with these of current polling station officers, had been allegedly eliminated and changed with out session or due course of.
They claimed that the celebration had instructed the constituency committee to submit an agreed identify in accordance with established pointers and consensus reached amongst stakeholders.
The petitioners claimed that the coordinator and affected folks within the constituency later found discrepancies between the unique type submitted and the abstract doc presently in use.
They described the event as arbitrary, non-consultative and unfair, warning that the scenario may undermine belief within the course of and trigger discontent amongst grassroots celebration members within the constituency.
The group due to this fact referred to as on the celebration management to conduct a whole audit of all paperwork initially submitted and introduced by the constituency.
It additionally referred to as for the restoration of all names submitted by the Committee, speedy steps to make sure integrity, transparency and equity within the course of, and measures to allow the Committee to perform successfully.
A replica of the petition was additionally forwarded to the New Patriotic Occasion’s northern regional management and constituency executives for consideration and motion.
