The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says President Akufo-Addo deliberately eased the Covid-19 restrictions to enable the Electoral Commission (EC) to proceed with its decision to compile a new voters’ register for the 2020 general elections.
According to him, the President eased the restrictions because of his parochial political interest regardless of the increasing COVID-19 cases in the country.
At a press briefing in Accra on Monday, the National Communications Officer of the NDC, Mr Sammy Gyamfi said the decision to ease restrictions on public gathering in spite of the country recording high numbers of COVID-19 cases was politically motivated.
He explained that whereas President Akufo-Addo gave one hour for church and mosque activities and with a limited number of 100 people, the EC and National Identification Authority (NIA) were not given any limitation of hours and number of people they could register in a day.
Mr. Gyamfi was of the view that the president was behind the scheme of the EC and NIA’s grand agenda to rig this year’s general elections in favour of the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Adding that EC’s failure to honour the invitation of the National House of Chiefs is a clear indication of the entrenched position taken by the EC not to listen to any other party apart from itself.
