About 1,000 voters believed to be sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and said to have fraudulently registered during the voter transfer exercise in the Manhyia South constituency have been declared void.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary candidate for the constituency, Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah objected to the registration following his suspicion that the voter transfers had been engineered by the NDC, with the aim of boosting the NDC’s chances in the Manhyia South Constituency in the 2024 elections.
The PC then mobilised polling station executives of the party (NPP) in the constituency and some residents of the constituency to ascertain the true identity of the purported voters on the transfer list, whether they were residents in the constituency or not, to complete the objection Form pursuant to Regulation 23 of C.I. 91.
Baffour Awuah later lodged a complaint with the Electoral Commission (EC) pursuant to Regulations 23 (2) (c ) and (d), 24 (2) (f) and 25 (1) of C.I. 91 to the effect that the over 1,000 voter transfers involved persons who do not live in the Manhyia South constituency.
The EC subsequently referred the matter to the Magistrate Court at Prempeh Assembly Hall, Kumasi, for determination.
Last Friday, September 20, 2024 landlords of the properties where the over 1,000 registered voters were said to be living testified before the court and categorically denied the said persons as tenants in their properties.
Her Worship Deborah Gyaawa Donkor, the presiding Magistrate, over the objection to the 1,000 fraudulent voter transfers to the Manhyia South Constituency, therefore, upheld the claim by the complainant per the EC and declared the said transfers null and void.
