Despite the election of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as vice-president of Ghana, following the victory of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2016 elections, his image as a “liar” and one who makes unsubstantiated claims remains, the National Democratic Congress’ Koku Anyidoho has said.
Mr Anyidoho, the NDC’s Deputy General Secretary, has been the most consistent critic of the former Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, daring him on several occasions to come up with evidence to back his assertions, notably that Ghana’s electoral roll contained many aliens.
Dr Bawumia, while leading the charge by his party in 2015 for a new voters’ register for the 2016 polls – a request later turned down by the Electoral Commission – had said the NPP, after comparing the electoral registers of both Ghana and Togo, had uncovered the names of more than 76000 citizens of neighbouring Togo on Ghana’s voter roll, promising to provide more names as it undertook an audit of the poll roll.
But the former spokesperson to late president John Atta Mills insisted that Dr Bawumia’s failure to use the 2016 voter exhibition to prove his case and the denial by the Togolese Electoral Commission that it had given out a copy of that country’s register to any political organisation in Ghana dented the credibility of the now vice-president-elect.
Mr Anyidoho also insisted that the campaign promise by Dr Bawumia and the NPP to provide every constituency in the country with $1million was another indication that the renowned economist had a penchant for being economical with the truth.
Speaking on Accra FM’s morning show, Ghana Yensom, on Friday December 30, 2016, in the aftermath of the NDC’s electoral loss, which will see it return to opposition for at least the next four years beginning January 7, 2017, Mr Anyidoho said his views on Bawumia remain the same despite the latter’s imminent elevation to the position of the second most powerful man in the country.
“…Nothing changes. I made those statements based on facts. Nothing changes,” the NDC’s Deputy General Secretary told Francis Xavier Sosu, who co-hosted a special edition of the show with Chief Jerry Forson.
He continued: “…The main issue at hand was the issue of the Togolese register. Will he be able to produce that evidence?
“I insist that Bawumia has brought no evidence to show there are aliens on the voters’ register. At the end of the day it was the same register used in conducting polls which they won. Will Bawumia say the votes of foreigners aided their victory?”
According to him, Dr Bawumia now has the “opportunity to prove me wrong” regarding his claims and electoral promises now that he will be at the helm of affairs.
Mr Anyidoho assured he would grant Dr Bawumia due regard as vice president of the country, insisting however that it does not invalidate the fact that many of the claims he made as vice-presidential candidate were, in his view, false.
“So nothing has changed. Yes, he is going to become the vice president of the Republic of Ghana, he is going to occupy that high office. Whatever respect that we must accord him as the vice president of the Republic of Ghana, we shall accord him, because we are according the respect to the office and not the person. So we shall give it to him but it…doesn’t take away from the fact that there were no truths in the things he said previously,” he added.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Who cares!
THIS THING KOKU ANYIDOHO CAN EASILY DEPUTISE FOR SATAN HIMSELF.IF NDC COMMITEE DOES NOT FIND OUT THAT HE IS ONE OF THE REASONS THEY LOST MISERABLY IN THE ELECTIONS THEY WILL GET WORSE HUMILIATION IN 2020.MILLIONS OF GHANAIANS HATE THIS EVIL MAN
I hat(e) Korku Anyidoho. I really hat(e) him.
Oh Ghana so dis tin was ruling us aaaaba no wonder tins went wrong. Dem u kwa.se.kwa
Who cares? Shove it to yourself
Your position does not even count here. Who need your position on Bawumia. If its not because of NDC who new you? Tanyigbe buuluu
DO YOU THINK DR HAS THAT TIME TO WASTE ON PEOPLE LIKE YOU? TWEAAAAAAAA IN YOUR DREAMS. YOU WISH TO CHAT WITH HIM. MASSA, FORGET YOURSELF KORAAAA
Koku calm your nerves cos is all about the forward march of gh.why this rush
Guys lets not even waste our time, and energy on this loser. He is the most ***barred word*** guy in Ghana. True to the previous comments, he will never learn, it is such behavior from him and those inexperienced, amateur NDC politicians, functionaries and so called communicators that NDC lost so pathetically. Hope the committee to investigate why NDC lost this elections should banned them from talking and banish them forever. There are more competent men and women in the NDC to lead them. Look at Koku, Ofosu Kwaakye, Kwetey, Ablakwa, Desossa, Loh, Yamin, Yamoah Ponkoh, Quarshigah., Adanms, Asiedu Nketia... on and on and on. No class, no merit, no personality, nothing intelligent ever came out of the mouth of these people. When competent people were talking about nation building, they spewing nothing but insults. Lets leave Koku to cry and lick his sores and wounds. He is a sore loser and plainly JEALOUS of Bawumiah. Whether he change his mind or not on Bawumiah is irrelevant, His opinion on Bawumiah did not matter on December 7th/2016 and I think it's not going to matter from now on.
Koku where is your evidence of "With the Presidential, President Mahama is in a comfortable lead even if they have more parliamentary seats" Give us a break and lick your wounds sore loser. Dr. Bawumia will give you no evidence you can go burn the sea. My Takdi folks will say 'wo so alle'.