Mahama votes in Bole-Bamboi, expresses worry about missing names

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Mahama, on Monday cast his ballot in the ongoing elections in his hometown. 

Mr Mahama voted at the Bole District Assembly Office where he has been voting since 1992.
He exercised his franchise within five minutes after arrival at the polling station in the Bole-Bamboi constituency.

Speaking to the media, he expressed concern that two persons including one of his security officers who had registered at the polling station could not find their names on the voter register.

This is in spite of being in possession of their voter identification cards but was quick to add that it was too early to make an assessment of the electoral process so far.

“It’s too early to make an assessment but there are a few hitches… There is a lady here (polling station), she’s got her card from this station but her name is not on the list,” Mr Mahama said.

“One of my security personnel, I registered here with him and during the exhibition, we checked his name was there but we got here today his name is not there and so I don’t know if it’s a generalised problem but like I said it’s too early to make an assessment.

“We are waiting to find out what the presiding officer would say and we hope that they can rectify it but these are some of the little things that we kept complaining about. I mean the Electoral Commission said they had eliminated 30,000 names from the register without saying whose names they were and I said that on the day people are going to come without knowing that their names have been taken off…”.

The Bole-Bamboi constituency is an NDC stronghold.