NPP to rig elections; NDC tape claims

Another tape scandal has hit the country with some leading members of the NPP alleged to have hatched a plan to rig Sunday’s run-off.

The tape which was given prominence by Raymond Arher, Editor of the Enquirer Newspaper, and first aired on Radio Gold an Accra based Radio Station, implicates former mayor of Kumasi Maxwell Kofi Jumah, NPP campaign Chairman, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, and Mr Hackman Owusu Agyeman for allegedly meeting an anonymous man to hatch the plan to rig Sunday's polls.

According to excerpts of the tape which was later aired on JoyFM on Saturday, a voice purported to be that of Kofi "Ghana" Jumah promised the anonymous man and 40 others an amount of 60 million cedis if they are able to steal ballot boxes in some regions across the country.

The said meeting was alleged to have been held on 22nd December 2008, the night before the special voting for the run-off.

But Mr. Jumah, the man in the middle of this allegation has categorically denied have such a meeting rigging the elections for the NPP.

He told host of the radio program, the voice could not have been his, adding there was an Ewe accent in the voice.

Mr. Jumah who laughed at the tape said he had never gone to Jake’s house where the meeting allegedly took place.

“Whatever thing that these are trying to put together could best be described as infantile,” he said.

Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey deny having anything to do with the said meeting and wondered why Joy FM should use its credible platform repeat such false information.

Joy FM’s Akwasi Sarpong remainded him that the tapes had been in the public domain and that as why he was called to clear his name.

He said he had never had any discussion with Jumah regarding the elections.

“I have met Maxwell Kofi Jumah in passing may be two or three times throughout this year.”

He emphasisied Jumah does not know his house and therefore could not be said to have met with him and others to plan and contract some people to snatch ballot boxes on election day.

Mr. Hackman Owusu-Agyeman also denied participating in any meeting aimed at contracting people to rig the election.

He said the tape was concocted and intended to create problems incase the elections did not go a certain way.