The New Patriotic Party’s Vice Presidential Candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said they have uncovered evidence that shows that close to 80,000 Togolese have also registered as Ghanaians in the voters’ register, evidence the party claims show that the register is “bloated.”
The NPP presented their said evidence to the Electoral Commission today and at a news conference, demanded that a new register be created.
He explained that data available to them shows unusual increases in the voters register in several constituencies between 2008 and 2012.
Dr. Bawumia said the nation recorded a 25 percent increase in its voters register between 2008 and 2012.
“An increase of the voters register by 25 percent between two elections is abnormally high and there are also several instances of this. One cannot credibly explain for example how increases in the voters’ register of magnitudes exceeding 40 percentcan take place. Where did the people come from?”
He said “what is interesting about the data is that quite a large number of the constituencies with unusual increases in the voters register are those that border neighboring countries. Take the Western region for example, where notwithstanding the oil find Sekondi and Takoradi saw a 5% decrease in registered voters while Suaman and Nzema East saw increases in the voters register by 23% and 27.7% respectively.”
NPP had tried to rally the various opposition parties to press for a new voters register.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana