The Member of Parliament for the Efutu Constituency in the Central Region Alexander Afenyo Markin has threatened to sue the Electoral Commission if it fails to extend the re-registration of NHIS registrants.

The EC enrolled the re-registration exercise on the orders of the Supreme Court on May 5, 2016.

His threat comes on the heels of calls for the exercise to be extended.

"There is the need to register the people who were affected by the decision of the Court, it is constitutional," the Effutu MP told Metro Tv. "It being a constitutional matter, they cannot use administrative decisions and directives to deny those people their constitutional right."

He urged the Electoral Commission to do what is needful, threatening to head to the court if nothing is done about people in his constituency who were unable to register.

“They should re-open the re-registration in Efutu. We have over 3000 people who are yet to re-register. They could only do 2,263 and it was not the case that they were not there,” the MP told Citi FM in a separate interview.

There were “over 800 people who had not filled their forms at all and over 200 of them who had only filled forms,” he recalled.

However, the head of communications at the EC, Eric Dzakpasu, said: “there is no evidence that when an extension is granted, the remaining people will come out of their houses or communities to get their name re-registered."