I wanted GHC6,000 to supply fake ballot papers – Kofi Jumah caught on secret tape

Loud-mouthed member of the New patriotic party (NPP), Mr. Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has been busted on audio tape, inciting followers of the party against officials of the Electoral Commission (EC).

According to Mr. Jumah, the EC Director in-charge of ICT is a known member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and that should be made known in order to help the NPP to reject ballots.

The Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti Region was captured on a secret tape, currently in the possession of the Enquirer, in a meeting with some supporters of the NPP suspected to have been held in the early part of the year.

“I say the one in charge of the ICT at the EC is an NDC man so tell him and he cannot do anything”, he told the NPP supporters.

The meeting is strongly believed to have taken places somewhere in Kumasi. According to Mr. Jumah, the only way the NPP could have its way to tag the EC officials as NDC members because with the ICT director being an NDC man the biometric system will not help.

Mr. Jumah, who is noted for his ill-mannerism in the political game, told the NPP supporters that the NDC rigged the 2008 elections and would do same thing again come December 2012.

“All-Die-Be-Die, we should not allow that to happen because now we know their trick”, he said on the tape.

He told the supporters, amidst cheers, that, in 2008, he was aware of a certain man in Asawase in Kumasi who helped the NDC to rig the election.

“You know, in all there were 23,000 polling stations in the whole country and what the NDC did was to fix each polling station with 10 ballot papers”, he said.

“They did in the first round and were therefore sure of victory in the second since they said it will be easy....” he said.

“I needed GHC 6,000 to also supply ballot papers throughout Ghana and another GHC 6,000 to balance that of the NDC...”, he added.

“You know, I have connections at the EC but nobody helped and at a time had to sit at the office of a big shot and a police guard asked that we move away....,” he said.

Mr. Jumah told the NPP supporters that if the EC would not allow them to do what they want, they should tell the EC to revert to the old system of voting or they would not vote.

“Why are they disturbing us like that, if they want they should...,” he said.

Amidst clapping, Mr. Jumah described the late President Mills as a dangerous person who should not be allowed to rig the 2012 election.