Long, winding and orderly queues
characterized early voting in Friday’s Presidential and
Parliamentary election in the Kumasi Metropolis and some voters
claimed they got to the polling stations as early as 0200
hours.
When GNA got to the Pankrono Zongo
Polling Station “A” of Pankrono Electoral Area of the Tafo-Pankrono
Constituency of the Ashanti Region at 0555 hours, 241 voters were
in a queue.
The Presiding Officer Wilberforce
Boateng, who said he had received all the polling materials, was
busy arranging them. He said there were 1,029 voters on the
electoral roll.
Polling started promptly at 0700 but
Mrs Lynn Opoku, the first voter, had a problem with
verification.
The Presiding Officer asked her to
sit down and wait. After a third attempt she was verified and was
allowed to vote. The second voter, however, was quickly verified
and was allowed to cast his vote.
Visually impaired Victor Owusu
Appiah easily went through the process and his wife, Georgina
Yeboah, also visually impaired, successfully cast her presidential
vote but claimed she had a problem with the parliamentary ballot
paper and voted for a candidate she did not intend to.
Four candidates are vying for the
Tafo-Pankrono Parliamentary Seat. They are: Memuna Kabore Abu-Bakr
Sadique of National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anthony Akoto Osei
of New Patriotic Party (NPP), Faruk Mohammed Tankoh of Peoples’
National Convention (PNC) and Issah
Abdul Salam of Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP).
However, only NDC and NPP polling
agents were present. Both Abdul Jalil of NDC and Richard Appiah of
NPP said they were satisfied with what was going on.
Tafo-Pankrono is one of the 47 constituencies in
the Ashanti Region.
Some of the voters suggested that a
way should be found to quicken the process.
