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The Electoral Commission (EC) in the Ashanti Region is taking steps to remove approximately 580 names from the Manhyia South voter register, following a court order issued on Tuesday, September 24.
This step comes after the NPP in the constituency raised concerns about irregularities found during the voter transfer process, leading the party to seek legal clarification.
Deborah Gyaawa Donkor, the presiding judge at the Kumasi Magistrate Court, issued the verdict on Tuesday, ordering the EC to undo the transfers and send the affected voters back to their initial constituencies.
Alhaji Haruna Alhassan, who serves as the Secretary for the NPP in Manhyia South, stated that the party is committed to ensuring compliance with the court’s instructions. He also urged other NPP strongholds to thoroughly review their voter lists for possible errors.
“It was during the transfer that we, the NPP in the Manhyia South constituency, became conscious about certain things relative to the transfer of votes to the constituency. We became conscious because the transfers to the constituency were not normal to us, but per the LI, there was nothing we could have done… During the exhibition, we followed up and found out that at about five or six polling stations, out of the 107 polling stations we have in Manhyia South, there had been some abnormal transfers,” he said, as quoted by citinewsroom.com.
Alhaji Haruna further highlighted a specific issue at St Louis Training College of Education, stating: “For example, we had about 150 transfers to St Louis Training College of Education… So we sent the matter to court and appeared before the court five times… Eventually, the court ordered that 580 people who were transferred to Manhyia South during the transfer period should be sent back to where their votes were originally… We are going to follow up on that and make sure the right thing is done.”
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