At Juaben Court 1 and 2 polling stations in the
Ejisu-Juaben constituency, voting came to a standstill for about
20 minutes when rumours broke that a suspected NDC agent was
using a taxi to distribute acid ostensibly to spoil some of the
ballot papers. At the Besease D/A primary 1, 80 out of the 852
people had cast their votes as at 0740 hours when the GNA
visited the station. Fifty-five voters including a 100-year-old man, Opanin
Kwabena Asare, had cast their votes as at 0745 hours at the
Besease primary 2, polling station. At the Fumesua Ahenfie polling station, 72 out of 205
people had voted as at 0815 hours while 143 out of 787 had
voted at Juaben Zongo Presby polling station as at 0905 hours. At the Ejisu Court polling station, 80 people out 1,202
voters had cast their votes as at 0800 hours. Voting was generally
peaceful in all the polling stations. In the Suame Constituency, though most of polling
stations visited did not have long queues, voters trickled in to
exercise their franchise peacefully. At most of the stations, about one quarter of registered
voters had already cast their votes as at 0900 hours when the polling station when NDC polling agents not satisfied with where
they had been positioned, insisted to move to a certain angle to have a full and clear view of the voting process. The presiding officer who felt that position could
hamper easy voting declined to give in to the request which
angered the polling agents but the swift intervention by security
men defused the tension.
Source: GhanaWeb
