Two voters in the proposed Oti Region have filed a last-minute application at the Human Rights Court in Accra to stop the Electoral Commission from going ahead to conduct or supervise Thursday’s referendum on the creation of new regions.
The two, Gabriel Aziaglo and Dan Louis Nikabo in Kadjebi from Kadjebi in the Volta Region are alleging breaches of their fundamental human rights to vote in the referendum as well as illegality on the part of the EC in in its implementation of the 2018 regulations on the referendum .
Documents filed at the Court Registry Monday claimed the EC has failed to publish in the gazette the list of the polling stations or places designated as polling stations for the purposes of the referendum.
This, the applications claim “violates” their right to vote and thus want the Court to stop the conduct of the December 27 referendum on the creation of six new regions.
Documents filed at the Court Registry Monday claimed the EC has failed to publish in the gazette the list of the polling stations or places designated as polling stations for the purposes of the referendum.
This, the applications claim “violates” their right to vote and thus want the Court to stop the conduct of the December 27 referendum on the creation of six new regions.