Again, she said after the current exercise, there would be a mop-up registration for persons in hard-to-reach areas.
Meanwhile, as of Saturday, September 16, Mr Mensah announced that about 182,831 persons had been registered. Out of which 53.9 per cent were males, while females constituted 46.1 per cent.
In terms of the breakdown, she said the Ashanti Region had the highest number of registrants with 29,255, representing 16 per cent of the total registrants across the country.
This is followed by the Greater Accra and Eastern regions with 27,264 (14.9 per cent) and 19,327 (10.6 per cent) respectively.
The Central Region comes next with 17,590 (9.6 per cent), followed by the Northern Region with 12,982 (7.1 per cent); the Volta Region with 12,681 (6.9 per cent); the Western Region with 11,644 (6.4 per cent), and the Upper East Region with 8,639 (4.7 per cent).
The Bono East Region captured 7,291 (4.0 per cent); Western North, 6491 (3.6 per cent); Bono, 6580 (3.6 per cent); Upper West, 5,241 (2.9 per cent); Savannah, 4,655 (2.5 per cent); Ahafo, 4,519 (2.5 per cent); Oti, 4,427 (2.4 per cent) and North East, 4,244 (2.3 per cent).
The EC chair who was recently awarded by the Internal Audit Agency for transparency, admitted to there been a few challenges encountered at the beginning of the exercise, but said those challenges had been resolved.
Mrs Mensa stressed that as the body mandated to register voters, the EC would not supervise an exercise that would disenfranchise eligible Ghanaians.
“The EC will do everything possible to ensure that all eligible voters desirous of registering do so to exercise their franchise,” she said.
Suraya Alidu Malititi/ adwoaadubianews.com
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