NDC’s Absence from IPAC Meeting was Beneficial – John Boadu
He said the NDC would have been a distraction at the IPAC meeting
Jonas Danquah 
The General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu said the absence of the biggest opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC) from the Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting held yesterday, had no negative consequence on stakeholders’ business.
He said, rather, the NDC’s absence was a good thing, as the Electoral Commission’s (EC) stakeholder meeting was conducted without unnecessary "disturbances".
“Their (NDC) absence did not affect the meeting negatively at all. The discussions that needed to be held was done so accordingly. If they (NDC) came it will be good, but they not coming was better” he said in an interview on Rainbow radio today, May 28th 2020.
John Boadu said the NDC’s absence from the IPAC meeting prevented distractions and outcomes that may not auger well with other major stakeholders.
“If they came, they may have caused distractions even before the meeting commenced”.
However, the General Secretary of the NDC, Asiedu Nketiah has defended his party’s absence from the IPAC meeting.
He said the role of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) is no longer useful to the country’s electoral processes because of its disregard by the EC.
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“First of all, it is our belief that IPAC has lost its significance. IPAC was established with the belief in Ghana that electoral rules are best established through consensus. So from 1994 to 2016, all the reforms that we have undertaken as a country had their origin from IPAC deliberations. Whenever we are making any law that governs election, it lies actually among the stakeholders at IPAC.” Asiedu Nketiah said on Wednesday’s edition of The Point of View on Citi TV.
Meanwhile, the EC has spelled out arrangements for the new voters’ register compilation, as Okayed by stakeholders at the IPAC meeting yesterday.
According to a statement from the EC signed by its Acting Director of Public Affairs, Sylvia Annoh, the registration exercise will commence in the last week of June, at 33,367 polling stations across the country.
