We’re professors when it comes to issues of elections; NDC are students – Evans Nimako

Evans Nimako, the governing New Patriotic Party’s Director of Research and Elections, claims that the NPP knows electoral issues considerably better than its opponents, the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

He stated that in terms of elections, the NPP are “professors” and the NDC are “students.”

He also refuted the claim by the NDC that the NPP never expressed concern over the extension of the period for the ongoing limited voter registration exercise, emphasizing that “the NPP does not dictate to the Electoral Commission what to do.”

The Electoral Commission (EC) announced on Friday, May 24, a two-day extension of the 21-day limited voter registration period that began on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

Mr Nimako, speaking to Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s news analysis programme Hot Edition on Friday, highlighted that the party has been working with the Commission on election reform since 2014.

“We don’t dictate to the EC, we don’t dictate to anybody, we said that this is an exercise that is for 21 days. I mean some of the things the NDC are complaining about. As far back as 2014 the New Patriotic Party has made proposals to the EC on how to make necessary reforms to ensure that our multiparty democracy will grow and deepen.

“So when it comes to issues of elections, the NDC are students and we are professors, we know elections very well and so where you have a 21-day exercise and it has not come to an end, and you are clamouring for more days, what are you asking for?” he questioned the NDC’s Deputy Director of Elections and IT, Rashid Tanko-Computer, who was on the other end of the telephone interview.

“When the kids are asking for biscuits, we are looking at something more serious than what’s happening now,” he stated.

However, Dr. Rashid Tanko-Computer disagreed with Mr. Nimako’s claims.

The NDC Deputy Director of Elections and IT stated that the NPP’s Director of Communications, Richard Ahiagbah, should have been arrested for election fraud.

“Our laws are very clear as to who is supposed to vote on election day…so long as your name is not in the register, you are not supposed to vote, that is all…my brother Evans, let’s do the right thing because if you’re professors in elections and yet a professor will allow an illegality of that nature, your guess is as good as mine…he should have been arrested by now and the presiding officer who aided him to vote,” Dr Tanko, the NDC Deputy Director of Elections and IT opined on the programme.