Former National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku, has assured that Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia only owes allegiance to Ghana and no other country.

The citizenship status of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has recently become a topic of heated debate, as allegations of dual citizenship have been raised by his political adversaries.

The controversy was sparked by assertions made by former ambassador Sam Pee Yalley, who accused Bawumia of holding British citizenship while serving as a director at the Ghana International Bank Plc in London.

Yalley based his claims on information sourced from the UK Companies House website, which listed Bawumia as a British national and a former director of the bank. According to the records, Bawumia was appointed as a director on October 18, 2006, and resigned on April 15, 2009.

But addressing NPP faithful at the party's headquarters today, June 16, when the Vice President filed his nomination forms for the flagbearer race, Mr Awuku noted that such spurious statements only seek to cast aspersions on the reputation of the Vice President.

"I am going to present to you our former running mate, fully Ghanaian, our Vice President who is also fully Ghanaian, I present to you the man who makes it happen, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia," he said.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Vice President Bawumia, Dr Gideon Boako, vehemently denied the allegations and clarified that his boss neither holds nor has ever held British citizenship.

Dr Boako emphasized that Bawumia was only seconded to the Ghana International Bank Plc by the Bank of Ghana and did not require British citizenship to fulfil his responsibilities there.

Click on the link here to see the appointment form, obtained from a reliable source, where Bawumia has indicated his nationality as Ghanaian.

Source: The Independent Ghana