Political parties key in attaining clean voter roll - Delle

Chairman of the Convention People's Party, Prof Edmund Delle has urged all political parties to play active roles in ensuring that only qualified people register to vote in elections.

He said the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) cannot achieve a clean register without the support of political parties.

In an interview with Class FM’s Paa Kwesi Parker Wilson on Wednesday 6th April, 2016, Prof. Delle cautioned against the bussing of foreigners into the country by big political parties to register and vote in elections.

He believed such practices were wrong and affected the credibility of the voter roll hence parties should desist from the act.

According to him, the calls for the cleaning or otherwise of the register would be in vain if the parties did not take steps to ensure only eligible persons were registered.

“It is not a secret that the big parties go and bus people to come and vote. They create the problems and then blame the Electoral Commission in the long run. The EC supervises, but they alone cannot make the register clean. We are not examining the fundamental problems, and we cannot suffer because of these two parties. Let us examine ourselves to have a clean election,” he pointed out.