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Former Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Ocquaye has challenged the General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah to meet Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and himself at the police headquarters for questioning on the voters’ register.

Prof Ocquaye insists the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) gave concrete evidence to support his claim that the Ghanaian voter's register is bloated; thus it is strange that the NDC, without providing any evidence, will accuse Dr Bawumia of lying.

The NPP allege that Ghana’s current voters’ register contains foreign nationals which makes the register flawed and therefore new one will be required to make the 2016 election results credible enough to accept.

The party has since petitioned the EC with information available to them and is demanding a new register but the EC has declined to compile a new one. Several pressure groups and political parties have since indicated their preparedness to challenge the EC’s decision.

The NDC's Asiedu Nketiah, in a press briefing last week at his party’s headquarters called on the security agencies to arrest the running mate of Nana Addo for allegedly authoring false documents.

He said, “The reason why we are calling for the arrest of Alhaji Bawumia is that if you falsify public documents with the intention of deceiving people, our laws should have a way of dealing with you.”

But Prof Ocquaye, who is also a former Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show said the world’s largest international police organization, INTERPOL, must rather take up the role and investigate allegations of foreigners in Ghana voters’ register.

“The INTERPOL is supposed to deal with this issue. In fact, I expect that by this time these matters might have been handed to the police already and so if Asiedu Nketiah has something to say about it, he should rather meet Bawumia and I at the police headquarters and see who will be arrested,” he charged.

Prof. Mike Ocquaye also accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of contributing to the 'pollution' of the register.