What Fake Togolese Voters’ Register, Koku Anyidoho?

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Garden City, New York
Jan. 8, 2016
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net

He has spent most of the past three years claiming to have been speaking on a nightly basis with the late President John Evans Atta-Mills, the man whose Communications Director he zealously served until he was rudely booted out of the Flagstaff House by President John Dramani Mahama who, word has it, had been utterly disrespected and ignored by this Arch-Trokosi Nationalist. What I am simply saying here is that Mr. Anyidoho has absolutely no credibility whatsoever. Like the man who succeeded President Mills under the murkiest of circumstances, Mr. Anyidoho has yet to tell the world precisely how his late boss met his death.

And so it is ineffably revolting to hear the Deputy General-Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) accuse Team Bawumia of having criminally fabricated their copy of Togo’s National Voters’ Register (NVR) from which the leaders of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) claims the names of some 76,000 foreign nationals to have been illegally migrated onto Ghana’s NVR. Rather than be allowed to wax so farcically self-righteous, Mr. Anyidoho’s executive associates at the NDC party headquarters would do themselves a great favor by quickly rushing their pathological dreamer to the nearest psychiatric hospital

Indeed, he may not like to hear this, but the Chief Advisor to Togo’s main opposition leader, Mr. Jean-Pierre Fabre, by the name of Mr. Messeme Esse, has just publicly confirmed to Atinka-FM Radio that, indeed, the forensic copy of Togo’s NVR that Team Bawumia used to uncover the names of the 76,000 foreigners packed onto Ghana’s NVR is the same register that was used in that country’s most recent general election. Ghana’s Electoral Commissioner, Mrs. Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei, has scandalously chosen the facile method of blaming Team Bawumia for her own gross administrative incompetence, by lamely claiming that all attempts to procure a copy of Togo’s NVR in order to ascertain the authenticity of the forensic copy used by Team Bawumia to assemble its incontrovertible evidence of ballot-rigging by the erstwhile Afari-Gyan-chaired Electoral Commission (EC) had been roundly and summarily rebuffed.

The Charlotte Osei-led EC, it is significant to note, now shamelessly admits that, indeed, the names of more than 2,000 (Two-Thousand) multiple registrants remain on Ghana’s NVR, months after the EC boss had informed the nation that the current voters’ register had been thoroughly cleansed of any multiple registrants, and that the current Biometric Voters’ Registration (BVR) system was equipped with a multi-layered auditing system that made it virtually impossible not to detect and promptly eliminate the multiple registration of eligible voters. We shall deal with the EC chair’s scandalously porous argument in due course; for now, suffice it to note, at least in passing, that the 2,000-plus names of multiple registrants were specifically brought to her attention by Team Bawumia, rather than this discovery’s being the result of any due diligence having been conducted by the EC Chair and her staff.

In all the foregoing, however, what was outrageously “disappointing” was the annoyingly languid expression of the same by Nana Akomea, the New Patriotic Party’s Communications Director. To be certain, I felt the wistful urge of yanking out my waist-leather belt and meting the Akyem-Nsutam native quite a bit of sound spanking (See “EC’s Decision on Voters’ Register ‘Disappointing’ – NPP” Citifmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 1/4/16). Were he a savvy communicator, Mr. Akomea would have promptly issued a strongly worded statement calling the EC Chair’s decision to reject the nationwide call for the establishment of a new NVR what it veritably was: “An act of insufferable criminality only surpassed by President Mahama’s unconscionable decision to allow the United States to dump two of the world’s most dangerous Al-Qaeda and Taliban Islamist terrorists on the Ghanaian people.”

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