There’s no basis for double registration accusations – Ahiagbah refutes claims

Richard Ahiagbah, the Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has strongly refuted claims suggesting he sought to engage in double registration in the Ketu South constituency in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise.

He described the allegations of double registration and not being a resident of Ketu South as frivolous and needless.

In a viral video posted on the internet on Saturday, the NPP Communicator was seen being prevented at a polling station by some NDC agents, accusing him of seeking to register twice.

However, Mr. Ahiagbah maintained that he had been a registered voter in the Ketu South constituency since the year 2000.

“My citizenship and sonship of Ketu South are well-known to the NDC agent who challenged my eligibility today,” he wrote on X after the incident.

Moreover, speaking to TV3 on Weekend Central on Sunday, May 12, Richard Ahiagbah noted that he had visited the polling station to register based on the advice from Electoral Commission officials to take advantage of the 2024 limited voter registration after his name was missing in the register.

“I got registered in 2020 I have my voter ID to that effect and on the day I registered in Ketu South at the same registration centre I went to yesterday, I went with my entire family so all of them had the card, I got mine. On the day of the election, I took them to vote and somehow their names were in the register and mine was not in it.

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“I reached out to the district director of elections, and then he through a process indicated that something may have happened and authorised that I vote. And during the 2023 limited voter registration, I went to the Volta regional office at the instance of the regional director to verify that my name was in the register…it came out that my name was not in the register,” he explained.

He further indicated that he revisited the registration centre to verify his name but still could not find his name in the voter album.

“I went to same registration centre to verify the same thing and they didn’t find my name in the register…so the advice from the registration centre to me was that wait and take advantage of the registration window in 2024 which I did yesterday.

“So there is no basis whatsoever one to claim that I was doing double registration, two, that I was not a resident of the place because since 2000 I have been registering and voting in the Ketu South at a particular polling station since when I turned 18.”

“There cannot be a basis for anyone to claim I am undertaking a double registration; it was a frivolous challenge yesterday and it was needless,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the Deputy National Communication Officer of the NDC, Malik Basintale, has reaffirmed the party’s preparedness to be vigilant in the forthcoming general elections, calling on the police to arrest Mr. Ahiagbah.

Speaking on Accra-based Metro TV, Basintale said, “We will not tolerate this attempt by the NPP to use dubious means to steal the mandate of Ghanaians in the December 7 elections. We have the challenge form with us, and we are calling on the Ghana Police Service to arrest him immediately. If they fail to do so, we will initiate a citizen arrest.”

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