President John Mahama has called on Ghanaians to go out
and vote in their numbers because “the price that wise people pay
for not exercising their franchise is to be governed by
fools.”
Addressing the media in Bole Bamboi after casting his vote,
the President noted that “everybody’s vote counts and everybody
must come out and vote... so that we
determine who leads this country for the next four
years.”
He called on the Electoral Commission to do its best to
rectify the challenges being faced by some polling stations across
the country.
“In some places I hear that the materials arrived late
especially Ledzokuku, Krowor. I’ve heard a lot of incidents from
there and the materials came very late so some people got exhausted
and left the queues and went back home. But I think whatever the
problem is, they should rectify it and allow the people to continue
to vote until they have all been able to exercise their
franchise.”
President Mahama appealed to the voters who have decided not
to vote due to the absence of electoral materials to return because
the problem has been rectified.
“If you went to a polling station and materials hadn’t come,
you better go back there because my information is that they have
taken action and rectified the problem.”
