Majority Leader Cletus Avoka has assured that no Ghanaian will be disenfranchised in the upcoming general elections in December. He said everybody whose details have been captured by the biometric voters’ register will have an opportunity to vote no matter the circumstance. Mr Avoka gave the assurance on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Monday, reacting to comments made by the chairman of the Subsidiary Legislative Committee of Parliament, Kwame Osei Prempeh who argued on the same programme that the CI 78 should be rejected because it was riddled with non-negligible anomalies. Mr Prempeh explained the Electoral Commission’s use of electoral areas created by the Local Government Minister was wrong and emphasised that, some electoral areas could even not be traced in the CI 78. Thus he added that many eligible voters in those electoral areas will be disenfranchised. He accused the majority in parliament of wanting to pass the CI irrespective of the errors because of the political advantage they stand to gain. Mr Prempeh added that if the ruling party was confident about its conduct and work in government, then they should desist from any attempt to gerrymander. However the Majority leader, responding to Mr Prempeh said, issues of gerrymandering and political interest were not even included in the recommendations of the subsidiary committee. He wondered why Mr Osei Prempeh was playing to the gallery instead of addressing the substantive issues. He said as much as the CI 78 has got its challenges, the committee’s report on it has also got its challenges and therefore the report is what should be nullified and not the CI 78. Mr Avoka again noted that the recommendations by the committee were not supported by the standing orders of the committee. “So I think that we should be sober and look at these things dispassionately [when parliament debates the CI Tuesday]. There is no group of people who love Ghanaians more than the other group of people,” he stated. “We are all Ghanaians and we are all committed to ensuring that there is even and balanced development in the country. But the way he [Osei Prempeh] is playing to the gallery, I don’t think it will help anybody.” He added that “Nobody will be disenfranchised in the December 2012 elections. Electoral Commission has demarcated constituencies; there are polling stations that people have identified themselves with through the biometric registration exercise. On the 7th of December, people will be wielding their ID cards and their names will be in a polling station and they will go and then vote.” “Nobody and let me repeat that, nobody in Ghana will be disenfranchised unless his name is not in the voters’ register,” Cletus Avoka maintained.