Members of the African Electoral Institute (AEI) has admonished Ghana’s Electoral Commission to allow political parties observe the ongoing voter registration exercise.
The African Electoral Institute made this call in a press release.
Read the full press release below…
PRESS RELEASE
TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES
DATE: 3rd JUNE, 2024
*AFRICAN ELECTORAL INSTITUTE (AEI) ADMONISH THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA(EC) TO ALLOW POLITICAL PARTIES TO OBSERVE THE TRANSFER OF VOTES EXERCISE*
African Electoral Institute (AEI) has sighted a memo from the EC’S Deputy Chairman of Operations to all EC’S Regional Directors dated 2nd June, 2024 not to allow political parties to observe the transfer of votes exercise by the EC.
The AEI is by this Press Release admonishing the EC to allow the political parties to observe this exercise to nib in the bud any iota of suspicion and to underscore the EC’S motto of TRANSPARENCY.
The AEI wishes to remind the EC that election is a process, and the transfer exercise is part of the process.
Therefore, a mere observation of the vote transfer by political parties will go a long way to augment the transparency credentials of the EC and the acceptance of election results in good faith.
SIGNED:
*Augustus Kweku Eshun*
*(Director of Communications and External Relations)*
*Tel 024-460 9891*
*Deputy Director of Communications and ExternalRelations*
*Nii Adjin Adjin- Tettey*
*0540904550*
*3rd Dep. Director of Communications and ExternalRelations*
*Emmanuel Biri*
*0538421573* *( WESTERN REGION AND CENTRAL REGION )*
*Ex WO1 Alhaji Yussif Mahamah, Head- Electoral Security Department*
*0243311965*
The African Electoral Institute ( AEI) is a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) founded to deliver sustainable electoral solutions to Emerging and Developed Democracies to strengthen, augment, and build electoral stakeholders capacity and participation on electoral issues through electoral education on voter’s rights and freedom, electoral research, election monitoring, election observation, election results collation, election security awareness and training of polling agents and elections directors underscoring the fact that *“elections are won at the polling stations’’* and the participation of all identifiable electoral stakeholders in an electoral process such as Political Parties, Governmental Institutions, underpinning transparency and accountability for a free, fair, and credible elections in Africa and the wider world.
*Motto: “Integrity of Choice”*
