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National Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC) Bernard Mornah has rubbished the call by the General Secretary of ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia for Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia's arrest.

To Bernard Mornah, the NDC's call is "unnecessary and unmeritorious".

The ruling party, on Wednesday, called on the Ghana Police Service to invite for questioning, the running mate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for peddling what they termed “falsehoods about Ghana’s voter’s register.”

At a press conference in Accra, the NDC'S General Secretary said Dr Bawumia ought to be invited and investigated by the security agencies because, the Electoral Commission’s preliminary report on the calls for a new voters register suggests that Dr Bawumia “peddled falsehood” that has the potential to destabilize the nation.

But speaking to the issue on Friday, Bernard Mornah pointed out the NDC have peddled falsehood and deceived Ghanaians on numerous occasions and therefore if there should be any calls for arrest, it should first be their own members.

“The NDC should look within itself and see how many people have not told lies and come out with figures that at the end of the day, they will not support the arguments that they’re making; and yet no one is calling for their arrest because they’ve told lies. So, I condemn this attempt to want to cower particularly those of us in opposition by calling for our arrest unnecessarily,” the PNC Chair stated during a panel discussion on Peace FM's Kokrokoo.

He advised the NDC not to engage in a futile quest for Dr. Bawumia to be arrested, saying “I think that for anything at all it is unmeritorious. The NDC have said several things in this country which are not true. They’ve not been arrested because they have said things that are not truth. The NPP have brought a case up which we have all explained that the case that they’re bringing up really is not meritorious. It doesn’t really make a point. I have spoken my mind about these issues.

“And so if all of us agree that there is no merit, I think that it is totally unnecessary that the NDC will be calling for the arrest of Bawumia. To prove what? What will the arrest of Bawumia lead the NDC into doing?”