Voting Progress - Accra

Polling started throughout the Odododiodio Constituency in the Greater Accra Region on Sunday with long queues of voters waiting anxiously to cast their votes. At the James Town Mantse Court polling station with number CO50107 in the Ngleshie electoral area, polling started at exactly 0700 hours with 100 voters waiting patiently to cast their votes. Miss Patience Opare, Presiding Officer responsible for the area, said no incidents had been reported so far and she did not envisage any problems as the voters were cooperating very well. She said there were 635 qualified voters in the register and expressed optimism that by noon the number of people in the queue would increase.

At the T.B. Bukom Park and Sakumo Tso Shishi Palace polling centres in the Kinka electoral areas, voting started at 0700 hours. The polling centre with number C050207, 90 out of 844 registered voters had cast their ballots by 0825 hours.

Mr Bright Hammond, Presiding Officer, told the GNA that voting was going on smoothly but there were problems with voters who had no Voter ID cards and give names that are different from what is in the register. This, he said, made it difficult for polling agents to identify the names of such voters. Security personnel from the Police, Ghana National Fire service, Customs Excise and Preventive Service and party agents of the New Patriotic Party, National Democratic Congress and People's National Convention as well as some observers from the European Union, Economic Community of West African States Carter centre and Institute of Economic Affairs are present. Six Parliamentary candidates Emmanuel Oddoye Junior of the Convention People's Party, Edward Nii Darko Dodoo of Democratic Freedom Party, Jonathan Tackie Komme of the National Democratic congress, Mohammed Adjei Sowah of the New patriotic Party and Isaac Ajevor of the People's National Convention are contesting the parliamentary seat for the area.