Two communities in Nkwanta-South boycott run-off

Kpassa, (V/R), Dec. 28, (Awumah), GNA - The Chiefs and people of Jumbo and New Agou in the Nkwanta-South constituency are not voting in the presidential run-off.

The two communities had boycotted the Presidential and Parliamentary elections of December 7 in protest against being made to be part of Nkwanta-South instead of the Nkwanta-North Constituency. Nana Laso III, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency on behalf of the two communities during the December 7 election said, they had no problem with the Presidential elections but were compelled to boycott it because it was taking place simultaneously with the parliamentary elections. Nana Laso had told the GNA that the two communities would resist any attempts to impose the elections on them.

Mr Thomas Afo-Dodoo, Nkwanta District Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) however told the GNA at Kpassa that he did not want to endanger the lives of anybody by conducting the Presidential run-off in the two communities.

Meanwhile response to voting in the Kpassa town was less enthusiastic than the December 7 election. By 1100 hours, 416 out of 960 registered voters had voted at the L.A. JHS "B" Polling Station.

At the L.A. Primary "B" Polling Station 481 out of 1216 registered voters had cast their votes shortly after 1100 hours. Mr Kwame Owusu from New Gbawe in Accra, who is the NDC Party Agent at the L.A JHS "B" Polling station, said he had accepted to be at post for the NDC in Nkwanta-North to demonstrate his support for the party. Ms Roberta Asantewaa, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) Agent from Accra at one of the polling stations in Ho told the GNA that nobody had raised any objection to her presence at the Polling station. "For now I feel comfortable", she said. The NDC had been against the bringing in of Party agents from outside the region.