VOA's Peter Clottey, reporting from Ghana's capital of Accra, reports polls closed in Ghana at 5 p.m. local time, although people in line at that hour were allowed to vote. He says the electoral commission postponed voting in one western Ghanaian district (Jaman North) until Thursday, due to an unspecified security threat.
Source: VOA - Vote-counting has begun in the West African nation of Ghana, after polls to choose the country's next president and parliament.
VOA's Peter Clottey, reporting from Ghana's capital of Accra, reports polls closed in Ghana at 5 p.m. local time, although people in line at that hour were allowed to vote. He says the electoral commission postponed voting in one western Ghanaian district (Jaman North) until Thursday, due to an unspecified security threat.
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“A few hours are a small sacrifice to make sure we don’t have four more years of the mismanagement, incompetence and corruption of the Mahama-led NDC government.” Source: kasapafmonline. com - The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is calling on the general public to stay at their respective polling stations to observe the counting of the ballot and to also verify that the correct results are reported by officers of the Electoral Commission (EC).
Watch Election News Night - Live Election TV by Joy News. plenty of latest news updates! The longest News Night - live from Ghana! Advertisement Sorce; myjoyonline. com - Actor John Dumelo has voted and to prove who he voted for, he shared a photo of his ballot on social media.
The actor, shortly after casting his ballot Wednesday, posted a photo of his choice for president, John Dramani Mahama, on Snapchat. Source: citifmonline. com - The right to vote has ended. The responsibility to count has begun.
Myjoyonline.com brings you provisional declaration of 275 winners in Parliament followed by results of the Presidential elections. In a winner-takes-all-system, nobody remembers losers and so myjoyonline.com gives you the winning list. Source: myjoyonline. com - Some provisional results have begun trickling in from the various polling stations across the country after polls closed at 5:00pm.
The exercise has been fairly peaceful as the over 15 million voters trooped to the various centres to cast their ballots. There were pockets of violence and irregularities but the polls were generally peaceful. Source: adomonline. com - A man believed to be in his mid-twenties had a part of his upper lip bitten off during a free for all fight at the Dormadin LA Primary School Polling Station in the Worawora township in the Volta Region.
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