It emerged a few days ago that the vice presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia did not go to any of the designated EC verification centres for his verification–rather EC officials took their machine to his residence at Walewale in the Northern Region for some sort of special verification for him.
A three-member committee which was set up by the EC to look into this, according to the Director of Communications at the EC, Eric Dzakpasu, has found the allegations of Bawumia’s residence verification to be false.
But Dzakpasu has stated that, Bawumia’s verification per their finding was not at a designated centre.
He told Citi Fm that: “All that we knew is that, they verified him outside, some distance away from the exhibition centre and certainly not the house but outside the exhibition centre.”
And on the issue of Bawumia having bribed the two EC officials who handled his verification, Eric Dzakpasu said:
What the committee came out with is what was in the release. What it means therefore is that we could not establish that there was indeed some motivation; money or material-wise which induced them to work outside the centre. No issue of bribery was reported to the Electoral Commission.