{"id":2855,"date":"2024-08-20T00:38:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T00:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2024-08-20T00:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T00:38:36","slug":"ec-should-postpone-voters-exhibition-exercise-to-ensure-peaceful-polls-says-asiedu-nketiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=2855","title":{"rendered":"EC should postpone voter&#8217;s exhibition exercise to ensure peaceful polls, says Asiedu Nketiah&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/47829548.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/47829548.jpg 600w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/47829548-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has called for the postponement of the 2024 voter\u2019s exhibition exercise scheduled for August 20, 2024, to August 27, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Okay FM\u2019s \u2018Ade Akye Abia\u2019 on August 19, 2024, Asiedu Nketiah suggested that the electoral commission should provide the political parties with the voter\u2019s register for scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asiedu Nketiah explained that providing the voter\u2019s register to the political parties would serve as a safeguard and help to eliminate any illegal names from the register to prevent potential chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are calling on the Electoral Commission to postpone the exhibition exercise and rather ensure that the parties receive the voters register because that is what we will use to conduct the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you haven\u2019t given us a register and you announce for us to conduct the voters\u2019 exhibition, how will we detect if there are any discrepancies once the exercise is over? It is just like blindsiding us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, peaceful elections can only be assured if the EC is transparent with both the political parties and the public.<br><br>\u201cSo we are calling on the electoral commission to provide and bring a register for us all to monitor the names and to also remove names of unqualified individuals that have been illegally entered into the register by some unscrupulous persons before the elections begin. That is what will bring peaceful elections,\u201d he noted.<br><br>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Electoral Commission<\/a>\u00a0announced its intentions to conduct an exhibition exercise of the voter\u2019s register on August 20, 2024, to August 27, 2024.<br><br>According to the EC, the exercise will allow registered voters to check for the accuracy of their details in the register and notify the EC of any errors ahead of the elections in December.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has called for the postponement of the 2024 voter\u2019s exhibition exercise scheduled for August 20, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}