Bawumia under fire over renewed calls to produce Togolese list

Hardliners of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) seem not to back down on their calls to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to produce the 76,000 Tologese on the voter’s list.

Ali Dawud on Multi TV’s political show on “The Caucus” renewed calls on the NPP vice presidential candidate to produce the list he alleged included 76,000 Togolese.

In the estimation of Dawud, Dr. Bawumia’s failure to produce the said list after more than a year is an indication of NPP’s desperate attempt to win power at all cost.

“Bawumia made this wild allegation which could have plunged the country into chaos had it not been for the intervention of the EC at the time. Now we are begging him to produce the list but till date nothing has become of it,” Ali Dawud stressed.

Editor of The Ghanaian Lens newspaper, Kobby Fiagbe, who was also on the show drummed home the need for Dr Bawumia to produce the said list immediately.

Mr Faigbe believes Dr Bawumia’s allegation was an orchestrated plot by the party’s power brokers to discredit the NDC and the people of the Volta Region regarding their voting rights.

“It was an ethnocentric attack which could not withstand the test of time”, Mr Faigbe added.

Background

At a major press conference in August last year, the NPP claimed between 2008 and 2012 there has been an unusual increase in the voters register in several constituencies.

Dr. Bawumia, as he illustrated during a power point presentation, indicated that the said growth is one that defies logic.

“One cannot credibly explain for example how increases in the voters’ register of magnitudes exceeding 40% can take place. Where did the people come from?” “...quite a large number of the constituencies with unusual increases in the voters’ register are those from 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,” he claimed.

Using facial biometric recognition technology, the NPP’s investigation team reportedly fished out 76,286 voters with the same names and faces on the Ghanaian and Togolese voters registers.

"Our investigative team got the Togo voters’ register which was freely shown preceding the 2015 Togolese elections. Utilizing facial bio-metric acknowledgment innovation, the framework has discovered 76,286 potential matches of the same individuals, with the same names and faces on the Ghanaian and also Togolese voters enlists; nearly 2000 of which we introduce in the force point presentation,

I ought to note that in this way, we have just finished under 10% of the work on the Togolese register and we will start work on contrasting the Ivorian register and Ghana’s in a matter of seconds and take after that with the Burkina Faso register," Dr Bawumia said at the time.