ECs limited voter registration got off slowly due to inadequate publicity Otokunor [Video]

A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s elections directorate, Peter Boamah Otokunor, says the slow start of the Electoral Commission’s ongoing limited voter registration has been due to the Commission’s inadequate publicity efforts.

Reports of low turnout at various polling stations on the first day of registration, May 7, have prompted Otokunor to call out the EC for not doing enough to create awareness about the registration exercise.

He stated that better publicity would have resulted in a higher turnout and a smoother start to the registration process.

Speaking on the JoyNews AM Show on May 8, 2024, he said “This exercise started rather slowly, and it was expected because the Electoral Commission heralded the process with very low publicity, and so you would expect that public awareness would be low, which means that participation would be low.

“But there are areas where we have seen significant participation of …