Sammy Adu Gyamfi is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He is the current National Communications Officer for the biggest opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC). Sammy Gyamfi have responded to the director of elections at the electoral commission of Ghana Dr. Serebour Quaicoe for saying that those in hard to reach areas can wait for next year.
The ongoing limited voter registration is intended to capture persons who have turned 18 years or above unto the electoral roll in order to afford them the opportunity to vote in public elections and referenda, in line with article 42 of the Supreme Law of the Land.
Persons registered, who are 21 years or above will have the right to contest in public elections.
As a country, we have a major and important public election ahead of us this year- District/Municipal/Metropolitan Assembly and Unit committee elections, 2023.
This important election affords voters to choose leaders to represent them at the Assembly and Unit committee levels.
Telling these eligible voters to defer their registration to next year, because of impediments you have deliberately and unreasonably put in their way, is tantamount to telling them to defer the exercise of their constitutional and inalienable right to vote in the upcoming Assembly and Unit Committee elections and/or contest to be elected in same.
This is simply nonsensical, preposterous and unacceptable!
We must rise up against this obscene tyranny and let the electoral commission know that it is an independent body and an institution which must make sure that eligible voters are registered in the ongoing limited voter registration.
No one has the right to infringe on another person's right and the electoral commission must do the right thing and ensure that all persons who have attained the required age and above are registered before the limited registration ends. We will make sure that the right thing is done.
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