84% of Russian citizens in Ghana voted for Putin

The Embassy of Russian Federation in Ghana has reported that eighty-four per cent of Russian citizens in Ghana voted for President Vladimir Putin in the Russian presidential elections held over the weekend.

His rivals got the following results 7.9 per cent of voters supported Sergey-Glazyev, 4.9 per cent voted for Irina Khakamada and around one per cent voted for Oleg Malyshkin. Two percent of voters cast their ballots against all candidates.

On the whole, more than one hundred Russians living in Ghana came to the polling station organised in the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ghana.

The paper added that, the elections were held in an organised way, with no wrongdoing or complaints from voters.

The issue of Franchising Ghanaian citizens living abroad last week came to a head in Ghana when the government tried to introduce a bill in Parliament under a certificate of urgency to start the process of getting Ghanaians living abroad to vote in Ghanaian election.