I’m 42, not 32 – Akua Donkor’s running mate ‘corrects’ age (video)

To buttress her point, she produced a birth certificate issued Tuesday, October 4, 2016 that quoted May 2, 1974 as her original date of birth.

From the birth certificate, she was registered at the Huni Valley Registry on Monday October 3rd, 2016 with the Entry Number 658.

The certificate names her father and mother as Kofi Asante and Afia Fofie respectively and that she was born at Opanyin Kofi Asante’s house at Amoana – Huni Valley in the Prestea Huni Valley area of the Western region.

The certificate is under the signature of Mr Augustine Tawiah as the Registrar and certified by Mr Ignatius Akwasi Faibi as the Registrar of Births and Deaths.

Mrs Asante who had come to the offices of Graphic Online to clarify her age in the company of Madam Akua Donkor, Founder and Leader of the GFP said the certificate was done for her in Accra on Tuesday.

Explaining why she had to quickly procure a birth certificate to buttress her real date of birth, Mrs Asante said she was not aware of her true date of birth simply because her parents did not register her at birth.

She said it was only after the media publications about a possible disqualification on grounds of age that prompted her to do a search and found out that she was born on May 2, 1974.

She said it has been troubling since birth because she does not know her real date of birth and therefore pleaded with Ghanaians to exercise patience, arguing that some people even at age 60 still look beautiful, implying that given her beauty, she really does not look her age.

I have four children, first born is 19, followed by 16, 15 and 11 years. I made a mistake with the earlier media interview with my age and will plead with Ghanaians to let it go. I even thank the media for drawing my attention to it.

She said the date on her voters ID card which indicates she was 32 years as of now and which she has been using for some time now was indeed a mistake and it is so because she did not know her real date of birth.

Akua Donkor

The flagbearer of the GFP, Madam Akua Donkor on her part said she personally combed the “whole of Ghana” to procure names, signatures and ID card numbers for her nomination.

According to her, when Mrs Asante was registering for her voter’s ID card, because she didn’t know her date of birth, they quoted one for her which they have searched to realise it was wrong.