About 1,210 presidential ballot papers have gone missing at the Yendi constituency in the Northern Region.
According to Adib Saani, the Executive Director of the Jatikay Centre for Human Security and Peace Building, the ballots could not be found at the Yendi Police Armoury after checks.
He reported that unknown individuals tore the bags containing the electoral materials for the constituency and took over 1,000 ballot papers just hours before the polls opened.
In an interview with The Ghana Report, Mr. Saani, a Foreign Policy and Security Analyst, expressed concern about the development.
He noted that the armoury, which is supposed to securely store the ballots, should be one of the safest locations.
This situation, he said, raises significant worries about the overall security during today’s elections.
The police have since launched an investigation into the matter.
Meanwhile, the political parties have agreed to proceed with the elections under specific conditions.
The parties agreed that no agent shall physically interfere with the dropping of ballot papers in the box, extra political party agents will be added at polling stations, and the agents may raise concerns over abnormalities at the polling centres.
Out of a total of 18, 772,795 valid voters, 9,690,173 are females, while 9,082,622 are males.
The polls will be held across more than 40,000 polling stations, from 0700 to 1700 hours.
As has been the case, the election is a contest between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), as the two have shared the presidential seat for the last 32 years.
Other contestants in the race include Daniel Augustus Lartey Jr. (Great Consolidated Popular Party), George Twum-Barima-Adu (Independent), Hassan Abdulai Ayariga (All People’s Congress), Kofi Akpaloo (Liberal Party of Ghana), Mohammed Frimpong (National Democratic Party), Nana Akosua Frimpomaa (Convention People’s Party), and Kofi Koranteng (Independent).
Below is the political parties’ resolution
