The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and the National Peace Council have made passionate appeals to the Electoral Commission (EC)to extend the just ended Limited Biometric Voters’ Registration Exercise.

According to them, most people who turned 18 years and above could not register and the Commission must give such people the second chance to register. 

Their call follows the public outcry that most people did not get the opportunity to register especially students at the tertiary institutions.

The Limited Biometric Voters’ Registration Exercise organized by the Commission ended Sunday, May 8.

The 11-day exercise gave people who have turned 18 years to register to enable them to exercise their voting rights during the November polls.

Speaking Monday on Adom FM’s current affairs programme 'Burning Issues', the Executive Director of the Institute, Mrs. Jean Mensah suggested that eligible voters who could not register should be given at least two more weeks to do so.

She, however, cautioned the EC to tighten its system to regain the lost trust and confidence that some Ghanaians have lost in them ahead of the Nov 7 polls.

Contributing to the discussion on the same platform, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Rev Prof Emmanuel Kwaku Asante backed calls for the extension of the exercise.

But the Director of Elections for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, said there is no need for the EC to extend the exercise.