The Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed the claim that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia invited two officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) to his house to be verified.
Anthony Kabu says the officials, who have been sacked by the Commission, excitedly took the voters register to the Vice Presidential Candidate of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s house for him to check his particulars in the voters’ register.
“Dr Bawumia lives in a village called Kpelga and it is a polling station. He has always gone out there to verify his particulars until the EC officials were excited to bring the register to his house,” he told Evans Mensah, host of Joy FM’s Top Story programme Friday.
The EC dismissed two officials namely Jobey Ambrose and Mumuni Latiffa who work at its Walewale District office for allegedly being induced by Dr Bawumia with the sum of GH?10,000 to breach the electoral laws of the country.
They are alleged to have taken the voters register and verification machine to the NPP Vice Presidential candidates house to have his particulars checked in the ongoing EC exhibition exercise.
They were summoned following a tip-off and upon interrogation admitted they went to verify Dr Bawumia’s particulars. They were immediately dismissed and replaced.
This development has angered the district executives of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) who have urged the EC to probe the issue.
Even though the NPP has admitted the two officials went to verify the status of Dr Bawumia, it says the two men did no wrong by doing that.
Mr Kabu says “People don’t have to necessary be there [go to polling stations] to be biometrically verified,” adding, EC officials can at times go to homes of influential Ghanaians to help them access electoral services.
“Paramount Chief of Lawra didn’t go down to verify,” he said, noting, “the EC took the register to him and there was nothing wrong with it.”
-myjoyonline