NPP Presidential aspirant forgery scandal

ALIU MAHAMA UNMASKED!

Vice President Aliu Mahama has finally been unmasked as the NPP Presidential candidate aspirant who has had his party documents forged for him.

Ghana Palaver, which has been carrying the running story for some time, had been careful not to mention his name but Emmanuel Ato Sam’s ‘New Punch’ and the ‘Independent’ newspapers have directly fingered the Vice President as the culprit.

Ghana Palaver can confirm that the Vice President is indeed the culprit. All the documentation in our possession – the Dade Kotopon NPP Membership Register and Aliu Mahama’s NPP Membership Card – bear witness to the forgery.

Unfortunately, the Vice President’s spin doctors have been making things worse for him by telling untruths about the documentation.

For example, according to the ‘Independent’ of Thursday November 8, 2007, a source within the Vice President’s Campaign Team disclosed that the Vice President applied for a new card through the Dadekotopon NPP where he resides, and that he filled the application form on 27th September 2007. But the Dadekotopon NPP Membership Register shows that Vice President Aliu Mahama was registered on 22nd July 2007, meaning that the Vice President was registered before he applied to be registered!

Ghana Palaver has also learnt that the Vice President’s application forms were collected by “Folio 48”, formerly a columnist of the ‘Statesman’ newspaper, identified as Anas Arimiyao Anas, currently of the ‘Crusading Guide’ newspaper and the 2006 “Journalist of the Year”. If this information is true, then Anas can best tell the Ghanaian public exactly when it was that he collected the forms.

This is important because Ghana Palaver has learnt that the forms were collected on 22nd September 2007, the very day that the NPP nominations opened. But whether the 22nd or the 27th September, what it means is that Aliu Mahama’s registration was backdated to 22nd July 2007.

The ‘Independent’ newspaper earlier referred to also reported that the Vice President’s Membership Card was issued “within two hours” of his handing in his completed application forms. An NPP executive member who spoke to the Ghana Palaver stated that such express order is most unusual.

Ghana Palaver has learnt that it was these inconsistencies that decided the NPP Vetting Committee to do a “Houdini act” and disappear so as to avoid vetting the Vice President on that day thereby avoiding an embarrassing scenario. This was to give him time to see whether he can put his documentation in order.

The Vice President has now been scheduled to reappear next Thursday.