Some Ghanaian residents in Togo have downplayed claims by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that there are thousands of Togolese on Ghana’s voters register.
[contextly_sidebar id=”cW7VYWccfUHoLQEX3RAEzdFWvC78BmPq”]Dr. Bawumia a few weeks ago claimed that there are more than 76,000 Togolese nationals registered in Ghana to vote.
However addressing the media in Lome, leader of the group, Joseph Brown Hammond said the NPP’s claims are untrue because the Togolese Electoral Commission has denied ever releasing their voters register for the exercise.
“No one, not even the political parties in Togo have access to their register. When then did Dr. Bawumia get the voters register? I am asking… We are therefore challenging Dr. Bawumia to present the register which he used in identifying the 75,193 credential voters. ”
“The usage of credential voters is a clear indication that the man is playing with us because what he sought to say was that the 75,193 people’s identity could vote so we ask: “Why should politicians be toying with our lives?…”
His comments come days after a former first lady and Founder of the National Democratic Party (NDP) called for a creation of a new voters register, reiterating that the old one is bloated.
Though the National Democratic Congress has dismissed the NPP’s claims the Electoral Commission has indicated its readiness to consider proposals for a new register.
Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is wondering if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) supposed 76,286 Togolese on Ghana’s voters register came “from space.”
He argued that the evidence provided by the NPP was “deliberately manufactured.”
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana