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We'll not accept any postponement of elections like 2012 - NPP

By Jeffrey Owusu-Mensah
John Boadu
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will not countenance any postponement of the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections, the party's general secretary John Boadu has indicated.

According to him, the party will not accept any rescheduling of the entire or any part of the election as it happened in 2012.

Many polling stations in the 2012 elections had voting postponed from the originally scheduled date to the next day after their Biometric Verification Data machines  broke down on the December 7 voting day.

But speaking at the party's national rally to climax their 2016 campaign at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra,  the acting general secretary who doubles as the national organiser stated since the Electoral Commission had promised that it had fixed the machines and was even sending back up machines each polling station, the NPP was not going to accept any such postponements.

Also, Mr Boadu stated they were not going accept the use of manual verification explaining that "manual verification should be the exception but not the rule".