The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has issued a warning to the Electoral Commission (EC) not to conduct its pending voters' registration exercise at its district offices.

The party says should the EC fail to adhere to the advice, it will take legal action against it.

NDC's Director of Legal Affairs, Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe who issued the warning said many new voters will be disenfranchised if the EC conducts the exercise in its district offices.

“The EC is applying the same law to only limit the registration to the district offices. We will explore all the available legal channels to ensure that we will get an outcome that will allow the elections to be more decentralised.

"We want to ensure that all our MPs are duly protected within the confines of our law, and we will definitely do that,” the Director of Legal Affairs for the NDC said in a media interview on Monday.

The Electoral Commission has announced that it will commence the 2023 voters' registration exercise on Tuesday, September 12, and end on Monday, October 2. 

In the said announcement, the Commission added that the exercise will take place at its district offices across the country.

Jean Mensa, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, made this known on Thursday, August 17, at a press briefing in Accra dubbed, ‘Let the Citizen Know.’

She disclosed that a GH¢10 charge for the replacement of a lost or misplaced voter’s ID card.

“The voter’s registration exercise will afford Ghanaians who have attained the age of 18 years, since the last registration of 2020 and others who are more than 18 years, but for various reasons couldn’t register during the 2020 registration exercise.”

“The EC will embark on voters' registration in all 268 district offices of the Commission. The exercise will be held from September 12 to October 2,” she disclosed. 

Following this, some seven political parties in the country on Monday, August 21 expressed their displeasure about the decision.

They insisted that any decision to restrict the upcoming voter registration exercise to its district offices would not achieve its intended purpose(s).