Electorate shows little interest in elections

Savelugu (N/R), Sept. 26, (Pobia), GNA -There was no Unit Committee election at some polling stations in Savelugu when the District level elections took off on Tuesday morning as people did not register to contest.

A former Unit Committee member who did not disclose his name told the GNA that during the last Unit Committee election, those elected were not inaugurated to allow them to carry out their mandate.

This, he said, made them non-functional in the communities, as the people who elected them did not recognise their authority. These among other factors, he explained, had discouraged the people from registering to contest this year's Unit Committee election. Turn out at the District Assembly Election was encouraging in the morning but there was a lull in late afternoon. Some of the Presiding Officers attributed the situation to the fact that it was harvesting time and the Ramadan, as well as inadequate publicity on the elections. Some voters also told the GNA that they did not attach importance to the District level elections because they had not impacted positively on their lives.

At the Yoo Roman Catholic Primary School Polling Station, 165 out of 658 registered voters had cast their votes as at midday while at the Adabiya English Arabic Primary School, out of the 778 registered voters only 193 had voted.

Two hundred and thirty-two out of the 698 registered voters had exercised their franchise at Alhaji Iddris Bila's House Polling Station as at 12:05 P.M. while 260 voters out of the 729 registered voters had cast their votes at the Canteen Polling Station, by 12:20 P.M. At 12:30 P.M., 224 voters had cast their ballot at the Savelugu Junior Secondary School Polling Station out of the 670 registered voters.