Ghana is currently conducting an
election to vote in their new President and Legislative representatives. The West
African country has a total approximate population of about 27.4 million
people. Below are the fact and figures collated in the on-going elections;
NANA AND MAHAMA |
Regions: 10
Local election observer: 8,000
Registered Voters: 15.8 million
Collation centers: 275
Polling Stations: 28,921
Security personnel deployment:
64,000
According to correspondents, long
queues are formed at the different polling stations in Accra. Voters arrived polling
stations as early as 11pm on Tuesday night. This implies that people slept
outside their polling centers just to get in line quick and vote. This is as a
result of the too much population at the voting units.
PEOPLE VOTING AT THE POLLING UNIT |
Mr. Kwase Myeynag said; “I
arrived my polling unit yesterday night and I slept on the road so that I will
be first in the queue to exercise my franchise and leave early; we are here to
change the difficult system”
It was also recorded that
Electoral materials arrived at 6pm on Tuesday evening.
There is also free movement
except for motorbikes who were restricted at about 24mtrs away from each
polling unit. This is done so that what happened during the previous elections
where motorist spear-headed the violence won’t repeat itself again.
According to Mr.Alex, the Ghanaian
Liaison officer to Nigeria media, he said “The elections are quiet and coordinated,
no sign of violence recorded so far, this is one of the peaceful elections
conducted in a while”. He also added that each voter is supposed to spend
atleast 4 and half minutes during voting.
More to follow….. Stay tuned.