Flier of new EC member can be equated to Edem’s flier – NPP rep

A member of the Communications Team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Vera Wiredu, has played down reports of the partisanship of newly sworn-in member of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) Dr Peter Appiahene.

She insists that Dr Appiahene is not a card-bearing member of the ruling party, neither is he a patron of any pro-NPP group.

After being sworn in together with Madam Salima Ahmed Tijani and Reverend Akua Ofori Boateng on Monday, March 20 at the Jubilee House by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the lecturer at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) was said to be a member of the NPP and a patron of its students’ wing.

Fliers were shared about how Dr Appiahene was considered as one of the persons for the ministerial position for Bono Region.

Speaking on TV‘s New Day on Thursday, March 23, Madam Wiredu said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) started this “propaganda agenda” with a short video about the man making a case for the Free SHS, which did not fly.

“The gentleman was speaking from a professional and personal point of view,” she explained.

She also insisted that the flier that is purporting to come from the NPP could have been created by anybody else, even the NDC.

“Anybody can produce that [flier]. It is not from the [ruling] party,” she said, later adding: “From fliers anyone can produce a flier. That flier can even be produced by the NDC to support their narrative in the media space because when they put the video out there, that video did not fly.”

She said that flier can be equated to that of award-winning musician Edem’s.

The musician had released the flier for an upcoming song but the media misconstrued it as his bid to run for NDC parliamentary leadership.