The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it will not deploy agents to monitor the ongoing vote transfer exercise.

This follows a memo by the Electoral Commission directing its District Officers across the country not to allow party agents monitor the exercise.

According to the EC, the decision aims at controlling the violent clashes that have characterized the exercise and is pursuant to regulation 22 (8) of C.I 127.

However, the NDC has described the directive as outrageous, ordering its party leadership at all levels to disregard the directive.

But the NPP Director of Elections, Evans Nimako, says his party has no issue with the directive.

“For us as the New Patriotic Party, we will comply with the directives by the EC, except that we insist that what is in the act must be real. It does not lay in the map of the NDC to say that irrespective of what the EC has said, we are still going to keep our agents at these centres. In any case, the presence of the agents will not in any way stop a prospective voter who seeks to transfer his or her vote.”

“The issue in there is that parties upon request may be given copies of the transfer list. And then at the stage of the exhibition, parties may challenge through inclusion or exclusion challenges for people who are supposed to be on the electoral role or otherwise but we are confronted with a situation where until the NDC says yes, nothing must happen and this for me is not the way to go.”

Mr. Nimako also rubbished some concerns highlighted by the NDC's flagbearer John Dramani Mahama and party executives.

He was optimistic the NPP will win the elections in December.

“NDC will not depart from this argument that NPP is colluding to rig elections. Elections will be conducted on December 7, 2024, and definitely, the majority of the voters, now numbering about 18.7 million, will vote massively for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

"We won elections in 2016 when Madam Charlotte Osei was EC. We won elections in 2000 and 2004 when Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan was EC and so for us as New Patriotic Party, it doesn’t matter who sits there as the EC boss. We are well represented in all the 38,622 polling stations. And I can assure you that come December 7, the candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will win massively.”