The national leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has directed its current Members of Parliament to suspend all campaign activities leading to their parliamentary primaries with immediate effect.

According to the party, the decision is to ensure that the Members of Parliament direct their attention to shoot down the Electoral Commission’s new Constitutional Instrument (CI) seeking to make the Ghana Card the sole identification document for registering as a voter.

The NDC has already expressed its disapproval of the new CI laid before parliament on grounds that it will disenfranchise majority of Ghanaians.

In order to ensure that the CI does not see the light of day, the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) has launched an operation dubbed “Operation Save Our Democracy” to see through the agenda.

In a statement signed by the General Secretary of the NDC, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, the party said “at its meeting held on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, the Functional Executive Committee of the National Democratic Congress in solidarity with the Minority Caucus’ fight against the obnoxious Constitutional Instrument the Electoral Commission is seeking to lay before Parliament, resolved that the period from the evening of 7th March 2023 up to the 31 March 2023 has been declared as “Operation Save Our Democracy:”

The statement further directed that “all campaign activities in all constituencies with sitting NDC MPs are hereby suspended. All sitting NDC MPs shall be required to attend all Parliamentary sittings. No NDC MP shall undertake any travel that will affect his or her attendance in Parliament. Any MP who has traveled is hereby recalled immediately.”

“All regional and constituency executives and aspirants are directed to ensure strict compliance with the directives herein,” the statement added.