Political analyst Joshua Jebuntie Zaato has expressed doubts that the upcoming Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting, organised by the Electoral Commission (EC), will resolve longstanding concerns about the voter register.
The meeting, set for Tuesday (1 October), aims to bring together representatives from all registered political parties to address key issues, including the voter register.
Speaking on Asaase Radio’s Big Bulletin on Monday (30 September), Zaato stressed that the debate over the voter register is likely to persist until the December elections.
“There is no one meeting, there is no one agenda [and] there is no one programme that can achieve that,” he said.
“This issue about the voter register is going to persist; it’s going to stay with us well until voters cast their vote and begin counting.”
Zaato pointed out that challenging the legitimacy of the voter register has become a campaign strategy for opposition parties.
“Disputing the register and raising concerns—some of them legitimate, some of them not legitimate—about the EC has become part and parcel of the campaign strategy of opposition parties in Ghana,” he explained.
He argued that even if the EC were to meet the demands of opposition parties, the goalposts would continue to shift.
“Tomorrow something is going to happen; the parties are going to go inside there, [and] the EC is going to try as much as possible to solve the problem but you must then understand that if the issue is a winning issue for the opposition parties, they are going to keep moving the goalposts.”
“So if you address this, then it is going to move to the next one. If you address it, it is going to move to the next one, and those demands are going to only keep increasing until election day,” Zaato added.
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