"Giving gifts to voters during elections not bribery" - says Pratt

The veteran journalist made this statement on Adom FM’s Morning Show, "Dwaso Nsem" today, May 12.

Pratt argued that "it was just part of the custom of certain areas in the country to be dolling out resources to persons during visits." Kwesi Pratt also insisted that giving out resources to voters does not sway their pattern of voting.

He added that if dolling out resources to persons, especially voters in the hinterlands could force voters to change their minds and vote for certain political parties, then certain regions and persons in the country wouldn’t have cast their votes the way they do now.

“What amount of asphalt did Rawlings not pour on the streets of Kumasi but still Ashanti Region is the stronghold of the NPP…there was a time when the Volta Region always boasted with traffic lights and that was all done by the Kufour administration but still the NDC has Volta as their world bank, so it hardly influences voting pattern,” he said as quoted by Adomfmonline.com.