Bawumia’s name in diasporan voter list - Awuku

A member of the main opposition New Patriotic Party’s Communication team, Sammy Awuku has claimed that the party’s 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate Dr. Mahmoud Bawumia is among 705 people whose names have been given by the Electoral Commission (EC) as the number of Ghanaian voters registered abroad for the 2012 polls.

Speaking at a town hall meeting in the Central regional capital, Cape Coast in the evening of Sunday February 17, on the platform of pressure group LET MY VOTE COUNT ALLIANCE, Sammy Awuku claimed: “I’ll tell you a very shocking revelation; Dr Bawumia, our running mate is also captured on the list as a student in Algeria even though he voted right here in Ghana”.

Sammy Awuku told supporters of the NPP and members of the Alliance at the Cape Coast Town Hall that their careful examination of the names also revealed that: “Almost 300 out of the 705 were British names”.

The Electoral Commission had earlier claimed that 241, 524 Ghanaian voters abroad were registered. The figure was used by the EC to justify the swelling of the register from 13,917,366 to 14,158,890.

The figure was captured in the Electoral Commission’s response to the NPP’s 2012 Flagbearer’s request to the Supreme Court in the ongoing election fraud petition for the EC to provide particulars and details of all registered Ghanaian voters in the Diaspora.