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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants the Police to immediately arrest the running mate of the New Patriotic party (NPP) Dr Mahamdu Bawumiah for deception.

Deputy Communications Director of the ruling party, Fred Agbenyo claims the NPP Vice-Presidential Candidate concocted a document he claimed to be the Togo voters register to deceive the Electoral Commission (EC) and the public into supporting the opposition party’s claim that the current voters register is loaded with Togolose nationals, and hence not credible.

The NPP has been pushing for a new voters register ahead of the November General elections, insisting the register contains several anomalies.

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.

But the ruling party pooh-poohed at his assertions saying the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana was embarrassing himself and exposing his ignorance in the country’s electoral process.

The NDC then dared the opposition party to provide further and better particulars to back its claim that remote nationals are without a doubt enlisted on the Ghanaian electoral roll.

Shortly afterwards, the NPP petitioned the EC over their findings.

However, just before the year (2015) ended, the EC, in 33-page document responded to the NPP's petition saying;