Mohammed Ibrahim Sherrif, Deputy Northern Regional Communications Director of the NPP has admitted that if the nominations forms for the Polling Station Elections had been made available online, some of the problems the party is facing now would have been averted.
“I would rather say that moving forward, some of these things should be made available online. If I want to stand for the polling station elections, I should be able to go online and download a form so that at the point of the presentation, I pay the filing fee. People have been applying for jobs like the YEA, NABCo online. So what will be the big deal if you put this online so that people go and download the form free so that when you are going to submit the form, you pay a fee,” he said.
He continued to say that “as long as human beings are involved in processes like these, biases would come to play, differences and suspicions would come into play and at the end of the day, we would continue to have some of the things that we are having now”.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region of Ghana also said they are committed to building a solid foundation along with a massive grassroots following through a proper and fair Polling Station Election process. This, the party says would allow it ‘break the 8’ and continue to win subsequent national political elections.
Speaking on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East, the Deputy Northern Regional Communications Director of the NPP, Mohammed Ibrahim Sherrif explained that to ensure this happens, the Regional Executive Committee in charge of conducting the election would spare no expense to ensure that the proper and true procedures are followed strictly.
“At the end of the day, what we want to have is a solid base at the polling station level that will be willing and ready to propagate the agenda of 2024,” he said.
Responding to suggestions that had been made by the former Mayor of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly, Musah Superior that the General Secretary of the NPP had failed to issue a firm directive that would dissuade some individuals from engaging in unwanted behaviours during the elections, Mr. Sherrif said such directives were given but it was expected that some individuals, being humans, would deliberately or unintentionally flout the directives that had been given.
“Those directives were given but the issue is that human beings are supposed to carry put those directives and that is where these disagreements are coming from,” he said.
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