The Deputy Majority Chief Whip in Parliament has taken a dig at the NDC after the party withdrew its relief seeking to stop the EC from compiling a new voters' register.

Mathew Nyindam says the opposition party’s move in the Supreme Court Thursday means they did not think the case through before suing the electoral management body.

Nyindam is convinced the “indecision” of the National Democratic Congress would result in losing the case they have before the apex court.

The NDC dragged the EC to the Supreme Court in March 2020, seeking a declaration that per Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution, the EC can only compile a voters’’ register once and subsequently revise it.

The party believes the current register is credible and the EC’s argument to replace it with a new once is not tenable.

However, with the EC’s schedule for compiling the new roll drawing close, the NDC added more reliefs to their case.

The party prayed the court that if the Commission must necessarily compile a new roll, then they must accept the current voter IDs as primary document for enrolling onto the new one.

But the EC says this is a nonstarter.

The current register is not reasonably credible as evidenced in previous Supreme Court judgments, the EC argues.

In their submissions to the Supreme Court, the elections governing body described the existing voter IDs as “a fruit of a poisoned tree.”

They said unqualified persons are in possession of the ID and allowing it a primary document defeats the purpose for discarding the current register.

But during the hearing Thursday, the Supreme Court directed the NDC to withdraw one of their reliefs and pursue the other.

Counsel for the party, Edudzi Tamakloe chose to withdraw the relief seeking to stop the compilation and to pursue the one which would direct the EC to accept the current voter IDs when compiling the new one.

The court is expected to rule on the matter on June 23.