At Cape Coast, voting took off smoothly with long winding but orderly queues in almost all the polling stations the GNA visited in the Cape Coast, Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) and Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese constituencies. Some 1,957 persons, including Osabarima Kwesi Atta, Omanhen of Oguaa Traditional Area, including two visually impaired persons, had cast their votes in 19 polling stations visited in the Cape Coast constituency as at 1035 hours.
Many of them were defying the scorching sun to cast their votes, with some having queued as early as 0500 hours. At the Auditorium 'A', 'B' and 'C' polling stations at the University of Cape Coast, many of the students who had applied for the transfer of the votes to the constituency, could not find their names on the transfer list and the presiding officers were making frantic efforts to get the list to enable the students to vote. Mr Emmanuel Quaicoo, presiding officer at the Auditorium 'A' polling station, told the GNA that some names had also been skipped in the register and the master list had to be checked to enable the affected voters to cast their ballots.
There were also late arrival of election materials at the M.A Effutu and the A.M.E Zion polling stations at Efutu and Mempeasem, where the presiding officers, Mr Sadique Saeed and Reverend Sylvester Donkoh, told the GNA that voting started at about 0730 hours. There was security presence at all the polling stations with mostly the CPP, NPP and NDC having their polling agents present. In the KEEA constituency Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, the CPP presidential candidate, had voted at the Akotobinsin polling station as at 0745 hours and as at 0800 hours 66 of the 1,449 registered voters had cast their votes there.
The CPP presidential candidate told the GNA after casting his vote that he was absolutely sure that he would be the next president of Ghana and that in case there is a run-off he would his party would not side with the NPP or NDC. He appealed to Ghanaians to come out in their numbers to cast their votes.
Nana Ato Arthur, the NPP parliamentary candidate for Cape coast, also cast his ballot at Abrem-Berasi Methodist Church polling station. Out of a total of 10, 308, registered voters, 1, 613 had cast their votes in 15 polling stations in the constituency as at 1015 hours.
