The Electoral Commission (EC) has denied accusations from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of insulting the party in response to its concerns about discrepancies in the voter register.
At a press conference in Accra on Thursday, the EC clarified that this was the first instance in which the NDC had raised concerns about the voter register.
The EC further noted that even in 2016, when the provisional register included images of plants and animals, the NDC did not raise any objections.
The NDC, however, found this statement offensive, labelling it as an insult.
However, Benjamin Bano-Bioh, Director of Electoral Services at the EC, clarified in an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Eyewitness News on Citi FM on Friday, "We did not say that to indict anybody." "We said that to let the world know that this is not the first time a correction is being done on the voters roll during an exhibition and that in 2016 the register that we exhibited had instances where the pictures of people were not normal human beings' pictures, yet we were able to correct it during the exhibition.
So it is not an insult; we used it as an example."