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Dr. Bawumia To Vote In His House

By Atindow Musah
Opinion Dr. Bawumia To Vote In His House
JUL 30, 2016 LISTEN

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has done it again! This time round not in the Volta Region but in the Northern Region, to be specific, Walewale Constituency. What did he do? EC officials sent a verification machine to his house and got him verified.

Dr. Bawumia in several instances tried to undermine the image of the Electoral Commission of Ghana. The first was when he appeared in court for opposition NPP in 2012 as a clueless witness who led the NPP in their defeat in that court case.

The second had to do with the EC registering foreigners in the Volta Region to increase the chances of NDC winning any elections in Ghana. All these were attempts by the NPP to discredit the EC and further create fertile grounds for the "second coming" or if you like "second going" of the NPP to the supreme Court.

This morning, I was combing through Ghanaian news websites including international ones just to feed my eyes about political and economic happenings in the world. I first visited Modernghana.com, one of my favorite websites I source information from every single day. The next was Myjoyonline.com.

Master, on Myjoyonline.com what I saw and read wasn't pleasant at all. The whole Vice Presidential Candidate of the "Major Functional Opposition Party", the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia verified in his own house! What country are we living in? Must the laws of the country be turned down to favour an opposition Vice Presidential Candidate? This calls for investigation by the National Security.

I moved on to visit other social media only to be fed with a press release by my good friend Simon Ali, the Walewale Constituency Secretary for the NPP. He tried to defend Dr. Bawumia only to be chronologically caught red handed about the arrangements of events in his press release.

Now, the good question to ask is: where did Dr. Bawumia get verified with the EC officials? Your guess is as good as mine. The press release issued by the NPP in Walewale Constituency can't save Dr. Bawumia from that embarrassment he has cast on himself. The law may elude him but I didn't expect anyone like Dr. Bawumia to be caught in this sad web.

The NPP defended this saga in different directions. In fact, they are moving together in different but difficult directions.

These are the words of Anthony Karbo, the deputy communications director of NPP :

“Indeed my understanding is that they [EC officials] only brought the electoral register. He looked at it and realized that his name was still on the register and then asked them to go,” Anthony Karbo explained to Joy News Anchor, Evans Mensah.

Now take a look at what the Walewale Constituency Secretary of the NPP, Simon Ali said:

"Not long after Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia went to his family home, he was informed that the EC Officers had come to verify him (Dr.Bawumia) at home since the clouds had gathered and it was likely it could start raining soon."

He continues :
"Dr . Mahamudu Bawumia however, declined this offer and rather decided to proceed to the Polling Centre... " so said by Simon Ali.

Compare the two defences! There is no correlation between Anthony Karbo and the NPP Secretary for Walewale Constituency. They must come again!

Yes, verification is free but not to be varied in your own house as done by Dr. Bawumia. The EC made it clear everyone will be verified in the polling station that he or he registered. Why then should Dr Bawumia demand to be verified in his place of abode? I need some answers from the EC for this omission they helped Dr Bawumia to commit.

Who knows the ten thousand Ghana Cedis the media alleged that Dr. Bawumia paid before he got verified might be true. This is because every social gathering Dr. Bawumia attended, he donated ten thousand Ghana Cedis. Hence he is used to issuing ten thousand Ghana Cedis to people.

In effect, Dr. Bawumia might end up voting in his house since he was verified in his house.

Logic be logic!
"All die be die. "
AUTHOR: ATINDOW MUSAH
TEL:0208532470

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