Former Ghana High Commissioner for the
UK, Ambassador Victor Smith has warned that there could be a civil uprising following how the electoral process is being handled by the Electoral Commission (EC).
Reacting to all these concerns and the refusal of Ghana’s Electoral Commission to conduct a forensic audit of the 2024 Provisional Voters Register, Ambassador Smith said he agreed with the protesters and the NDC.
According to him, there is clear evidence that the voter register is fraught with irregularities, including unauthorized voter transfers, missing data, and deleted voter entries.
Ambassador Smith said these developments, including the heightening of illegal mining was not good for the peaceful nature of the country.
“When the youth of the country come together as a force, you can’t stand. They could end up with a popular uprising,” he made this assertion on Dwaboase on Power FM and TV XYZ Thursday morning while commenting on the calls for the President to halt illegal mining to save the country’s forest reserves and river bodies.
Ambassador Smith also warned that the EC
Boss may not be able to contain the heat when Ghanaians become agitated by the reluctance of the electoral management body to audit the voter register.
According to him, the NDC has large numbers and can stop the elections if the EC fails to do what is right and ensure the election is transparent, free and fair.
“The auditing has to be done and it must be forensic..We don’t have to use the EC to do that job,” stated the former High Commissioner.
Warning the EC leadership to sit up, Ambassador Smith cautioned that, “Whatever they do, we must have that audit [of the voter register] otherwise, Afghanistan, Gaza and Ukraine combined is what will happen in Ghana.”
