Counting of ballots underway in Assin North by-election   

Counting of ballots is underway to pick out the winner of Tuesday’s Parliamentary by-election within the Assin North Constituency.  

The Electoral Fee formally closed the polls at 1700 hours for the sorting of the ballots to proceed on the polling stations.  

Scores of get together supporters have gathered to witness the counting course of amidst heavy safety presence.  

The announcement of the provisional outcomes is obtained with spontaneous jubilation by supporters of winner the polling station.   

The polling centres have been cordoned off to push back intruders and guarantee easy counting of the ballots.  

Mr. Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Get together (NPP), is the primary on the poll paper, adopted by Madam Enyonam Sefenu for the Liberal Get together of Ghana (LPG),  and Mr James Gyakye Quayson, the deposed Member of Parliament, representing the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC).  

The election follows the Supreme Courtroom’s declaration that the election of Mr Gyakye Quayson in December 2020, along with his swearing-in as a Member of Parliament on January 2021, was unconstitutional, null, void, and of no authorized impact. 

It is because on the time of submitting his nomination to with the Electoral Fee to contest the parliamentary election in 2020, he held a twin nationality as a Ghanaian and Canadian.   

The voting course of was usually peaceable. Nonetheless, two individuals have been arrested for  allegedgly interfering with the voting course of. 

Earlier than the beginning of voting, EC officers along with the political get together brokers, completely examined the electoral supplies at every polling station and agreed on the place of the voting sales space.   

On the D/A JHS ‘B’ polling station, which has 439 voters on the register as confirmed by Mr Pinnock Amoo Tenkorang, the Electoral Officer in cost, the primary particular person voted at 0702 hours.  

On the Methodist Main College ‘2’, 40 individuals voted as of 0740 hours, with others ready patiently for his or her flip to train their franchise.  

 Brokers for all of the candidates, significantly the NPP and NDC have been current in any respect centres.   

The Candidate for LPG has 4 brokers on the 13 polling stations in Assin-Bereku.  

There’s heavy safety presence throughout the polling centres.   

Some safety officers have been additionally positioned at strategic areas, significantly, street intersections to handle visitors.   

Safety has been beefed as much as cowl adjoining districts, resembling Assin South, Assin Central within the Central Area, and Adansi South within the Ashanti Area.  

The 2 main political events – the governing NPP and NDC, at a safety assembly on Monday, pledged to play their respective roles in making certain peace earlier than, throughout, and after the by-election.  

Within the 2020 presidential election, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo beat Mr. John Dramani Mahama by about 1000 votes within the Constituency, while Mr. Quayson, the NDC Candidate, beat the then incumbent NPP Candidate, Ms Abena Durowaa Mensah, by 3,305 votes.  

In 2016, President Akufo-Addo beat Mr. Mahama by much less 2,000 votes, while the NPP’s Abena Mensah snatched the parliamentary seat from the NDC incumbent, Samuel Ambre, beating him by 4,802 votes.  

In 2012, then-President Mahama beat the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo by about 3,000 votes within the presidential election, while Samuel Ambre of the NDC beat the NPP’s Ebenezer Appiah-Kubi by 2,057 votes.  

Earlier than then, the NPP had held the seat.   

Supply: GNA 

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