[contextly_sidebar id=”1x3DYFg7PmXpw1bVNtgrl1mec7oushx1″]The legislator suggested that, the president had knowingly given the outboard motors, procured using state funds, to the fishermen in an attempt to coerce voters.<\/p>\n
\u201cInterestingly on his first stop, he uses funds and equipment procured by the state for a policy of the state to give to people as part of his campaign. That is what is termed as abuse of incumbency,\u201d Ursula Owusu-Ekuful told Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can dress it and put any garment on it but look at the facts, all of them were embossed with JM 2016, that\u2019s a campaign gimmick. If you use state resources to buy outboard motors as part of an official government policy and you emboss those outboard motors with your campaign stickers and slogans and share them during your campaign tours, that\u2019s vote-buying with state resources and a gross abuse of incumbency.\u201d<\/p>\n The debate over vote-buying ahead of the polls has been reignited in recent days with the two main political parties trading accusations.<\/p>\n A recent CDD survey<\/strong><\/span><\/a> found that the NDC topped the list of vote buying claims, with fifty-one percent, followed by the NPP with thirty-two percent.<\/p>\n The survey has since been rubbished by the governing party, as well as the CPP and PPP<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, who were also cited as having offered ‘goodies’ in an attempt to buy votes.<\/p>\n Ursula Owusu-Ekuful\u00a0expressed concern that some deserving fisherman might miss out on the outboard motors because of their political allegiances, stating that, pro-government persons would be favoured.<\/p>\n![\"Ursula](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ursula-Owusu-citifmonline.jpg\")
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