Politics of Tuesday, 11 August 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comAsiedu Nketia denies facilitating the registration of 66 IvoriansJohnson Asiedu Nketia, NDC General SecretaryJohnson Asiedu Nketia, the NDC General Secretary, has refuted claims that he facilitated the registration of some 60 Ivorians during the just-ended voter registration exercise organized by the Electoral Commission. According to the General Secretary of the NDC, he rather met an Ivorian registered truck full of Ivorians at Banda Kabrono in the Bono Region during the monitoring of the registration process. John Boadu, the NPP General-Secretary, who addressed the incumbent party’s press conference, alleged that Johnson Asiedu Nketia orchestrated the registration of over 60 Ivorians at Banda Kabrono. And they realized that 66 Ivorians had managed to cross with the help of Asiedu Nketia to register and vote in the upcoming elections,” he alleged. But Asiedu Nketia in a rebuttal told Joy FM: “The NPP regional Chairman [for Bono Region] and the Parliamentary Candidate for the area ordered these people to come back to Kabrono and insisted that they register.

Source: GhanaWeb August 11, 2020 05:48 UTC