Walewale Constituency Secretary for the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region of Ghana, Mr. Simon
Ali says the report of the EC’s three member committee has vindicated the Vice
Presidential Candidate of the NPP, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
He explained
that the allegation by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) that Dr.
Bawumia had paid a bribe of Ghc10, 000 each to the EC officers to verify him has
been deflated by the report of the EC’s three member committee.
According
to him, another punctured allegation is the EC’s committe report that Dr.
Mahamudu Bawumia was not verified at his family residence as alleged by the
NDC.
Speaking on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia
Morning Show, Simon Ali insisted that the EC’s report has vindicated Dr. Bawumia
since the EC’s Head of Communications, Eric Kofi Dzakpasu clarified that the
NPP’s Vice Presidential Candidate has duly been verified.
He maintained
that it is baseless for the ruling NDC to involve the Police, asking them to
investigate Dr. Bawumia for going to verify his name at an exhibition centre
which is created by the EC’s officers, outside the assigned
centres.
“CI 91 (2) says it is the responsibility of the EC to
designate a place as a registration centre or an exhibition centre. Therefore,
one will assume a place set up by the EC’s officers to be the designated place
for the exhibition, the moment you see the officers at work”, he
highlighted.
“We do not have any locus to determine where the EC
should sit to do their official duty; we only go there to get our names verify.
This is why the EC’s report says it was the officers who changed the centre from
its designated place to a different place; that is why they have sanctioned the
officers for their action”, he explained.
He pointed out that, by
the virtue of CI 91 (2), Dr. Bawumia has not committed any crime; stressing
“there is no criminality in going to verify your name at the exhibition
centre where EC officials are operating from”.
“We feel
vindicated and we are happy. The NDC should do the honourable thing to render an
unqualified apology to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia...he has not been indicted anywhere
in the EC’s report; nobody can blame Dr. Bawumia if EC officials decide to move
their registration and exhibition centre to a different place which is against
their operational instructions”, he opined. |
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