Officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) in the Ashanti Region have begun taking steps to reverse about 580 names from the Manhyia South voter register following a court order.
This comes after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Constituency identified some infractions in the voter register during the voter transfer exercise and headed to court to seek interpretation.
The Kumasi Magistrate Court presided over by Her Worship Deborah Gyaawa Donkor delivering a verdict on the matter on Tuesday, ordered the EC to reverse the affected voters to their original constituencies.
However, the NPP Manhyia South Constituency Secretary, Alhaji Haruna Alhassan highlighted that the party will follow up to ensure the needful is done.
He called on other NPP stronghold constituencies to cross-check to detect possible anomalies and seek redress.
“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 is nothing we could have done…During the exhibition, we followed up and found out that about five or six polling stations out of the 107 polling stations we have in Manhyia South there have been some abnormal transfers.”
“For example, we had about 150 transfers to St Loius Training College of Education…So we sent the matter to court and we appeared before the court five times…So eventually yesterday 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 that the right thing is done,” he stated.
