The University of Ghana Students’ Representative Council (SRC) has revealed that over 80 per cent of their students who are eligible to vote in the November polls were unable to register in the just-ended limited voters’ registration exercise.
According to the SRC President, David Ohene Fobih, out of the over 8,000 students, aged 18 years and above, only about 1,552 of them were successfully registered.
“By the close of registration on Sunday, we had 1,552 students, which is less than 20 per cent of the number that we expected to register,†Mr Fobih stated in an interview on Citi FM.
Two registration centres were added to the initial one following incessant calls on the Electoral Commission by the SRC, but this did not translate into the registration of more students.
The SRC President added that their concerns had been forwarded to the EC, and were waiting for a reply from them.
“The EC is talking about it and is talking about what action to take but as to the exact action that they want to take, they have not communicated to anyone. I am just hoping that by close of day the EC would have come out to communicate something better to us", he said.