NDC refutes NPP claims govt enticing Togo citizens to vote in Ghana

Citi News reports the NDC saying that because most residents of the Volta Region have siblings in neighbouring Togo, the party is just encouraging them to come back home to Ghana and have their names captured on the Electoral Commission’s database.

The Volta Regional Chairman of the NPP, John Peter Amewu, had accused the government of diverting state resources to Togo in exchange of votes in the November polls.

He believed the government is transporting farming equipment to Togo to entice residents to come and register in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise, Citi reported.

But NDC youth activist Egypt Kobla Kudoto said the claims by the NPP “does not hold water.”

He said information available to the NDC suggests that over a million of Ghanaians are living in neighboring West African countries so it is their hope to ensure that such persons are not disenfranchised in the November 7 general elections.

Kudoto also denied the allegations by the NPP Volta Regional Chairman that government had constructed road and extended electricity project to some communities in Togo to buy votes.

“How can a sovereign country be there and we just walk in to build roads?” Kudoto said.