The NPP Youth Wing has described a lawsuit against the Electoral Commission’s decision to conduct registration in senior high schools (SHS) as an undue obstruction to disenfranchise second-cycle students.

The opposition NDC is in court to challenge special registration of students after reopening from the Covid-19 break.

The party’s position is that the special registration centres are unconstitutional because they have not been gazetted.

But the NPP argues that the registration is being done with existing registration centre codes.

“The EC assigned codes of polling stations that are closer to the campuses to the individual registrants (students). In essence, none of the campuses will have any unique code that is different from or outside that which has been gazette”, National Youth Organiser, Henry Nana Boakye said.

He added, “it is imperative to underscore that the sinister antics of the leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to disenfranchise these eligible SHS students by unduly obstructing them from registering to obtain Voter’s ID Cards in the ongoing Mass Registration Exercise by the Electoral Commission (EC) is very irresponsible, demeaning and shameful”.

The NPP describes the NDC’s position is a clear case of double standards since same exercise is being undertaken in the nation’s prisons without issues.

Meanwhile, Mr. Boakye has been justifying his visit to schools for which has attracted public criticism over Covid-19 restrictions which bar parents from visiting the wards.

He says he was duly accredited by the EC and GES to monitor the registration, just as NDC’s Regional Secretary Kwame Zu, has done in some schools in the region.

“My visit was strictly in conformity with the directives of the Ghana Education Service (GES) as contained in their release dated 9th of July, 2020, under the hand of Madam Cassandra Twum Ampofo.

"I went to the schools with accreditation given to officers of political parties and observer groups by the EC to monitor the process”, Mr Boakye emphasised.

Meanwhile, the National Democratic Congress in the Ashanti Region says all parties received accreditation to visit the schools but were to only monitor the process but their opponents will do otherwise.

Regional Secretary, Kwame Zu addressing the press said the party did not act in contravention to the rules of engagement.