NPP's Hidden Agenda

?GHANA Palaver? sources in the USA have revealed the hidden agenda of the NPP in seeking to ram the ?Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill (ROPAB) down the throats of Ghanaians despite the overwhelming indications of Ghanaians that ?the law shall not pass.?

According to our USA sources, the NPP considers the ROPAB a ?done deal? and the rigging machinery has already been put into motion. Hundreds of thousands of fictitious names have been compiled by activists of the ruling NPP, who are in the process of fixing addresses in the USA to those names.

The fictitious names are said to have been compiled mainly from the Ashanti, Eastern, Brong Ahafo and parts of the Greater Accra Regions.

Our USA sources also inform us that the names of all persons who have benefited from the NPP?s illegal largesse in their various nefarious visa contracting deals and schemes by securing for them visas have been compiled and already made available to Ghana?s Heads of Missions overseas.

As a 'quid pro quo?, these persons, many of whom are illegally resident in those countries, are supposed to be the contact persons in the grand rigging design, either by acting as proxies or mailing the ballot papers depending on which voting system will be adopted, or who will arrange for non-Ghanaian Africans and Diasporan blacks to impersonate the fictitiously registered persons to vote at the overseas Missions if that is the method of voting the Electoral Commission (EC) will decide on should the Bill pass.

Our USA sources have also learnt that already thumb-printed ballot papers will be sent to Ghana?s Heads of Missions abroad before the 2008 elections, and these will be used to stuff the ballot boxes to be ticked against the fictitious names that would already have been inserted in the overseas voters? registers.

Our USA sources, who have infiltrated the NPP camp over there, have become privy to studies conducted by the NPP itself that have indicated that the Party has lost the 2008 elections in advance, and that the ROPAB represents a last-ditch desperate effort to avert an imminent electoral calamity.

?Ghana Palaver? can confirm that in one such survey conducted by the national intelligence agencies for the second quarter of 2005 (April-June 2005), the NPP scored 40.5%, NDC 56.2%, PNC 2.2% and CPP 1.1%.

In its tours around the country, with the exception of the Upper East Region where intimidation tactics were employed to prevent non-NPP activists from attending the forum, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs (minus the Minority NDC members) has witnessed at first hand a massive rejection of the Bill in the Upper West, Northern, Brong Ahafo and Ashanti Regions.

Readers will recall that in our issue last Tuesday, we exposed how a picture taken at the annual dance of the USA-based Asante Association was falsely presented on the Internet as the executive of a so-called ?Diaspora Vote Committee? formed to galvanise support for the ROPAB among Ghanaians in Ghana and among Members of Parliament.