NDC OPPOSED TO S.D.A AND OTHER SATURDAY CHURCHES VOTING IN 2024.

The opposition National Democratic Congress, (NDC), has kicked against the Electoral Commission’s well-intentioned proposal to consider changing the voting date and day of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections to accommodate Ghanaians who worship on Saturdays.

At an IPAC meeting held on January 22, 2024, the Electoral Commission tabled petitions from the leadership of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and other churches which worship on Saturdays. These churches, in their petitions, reminded the EC of the need to change the date for the 2024 elections since 7th December 2024 falls on Saturday, a day regarded by these churches as sacred for worshipping God.

As a result, the EC has proposed that the date for the 2024 elections be moved from 7th December to 4th November 2024, or any other date that does not fall on a Saturday to enable these churches to participate in the 2024 elections.

The NDC, in a communique signed by their General Secretary, Fiifi Kwetey, and in several interviews by Dr. Edward Omane Boamah and Dr. Tanko Rashid Computer, Director and Deputy Director of Elections respectively, the NDC is vehemently opposed to this date change.

This simply means, the opposition party is against members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Truth Faith Church, Saviour Church, and all other Saturday churches voting in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.

These churches, from all indications, are being disenfranchised by this stiff opposition from the NDC and the reasons are not far-fetched. Many of the church members have expressed concerns about the NDC’s move to deny them their rights to vote in 2024.

‘’We find it so strange if not appalling why the NDC would want us to stay out of the 2024 elections. Is it the case that most of us support the NPP that is why they are against us voting? We cannot simply understand them’’ a worried SDA Church leader stated.