A shooting at a polling station, which left one dead, was the most serious incident of the day
Dec. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The electoral authorities of Ghana have already begun counting votes in a general election that has passed between a certain disaffection and relative peace interrupted only by a shooting in the north of the country that has left one dead.
The incident occurred in the town of Nyankpala between supporters of the country’s two major parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and at least four people have been arrested, according to Police sources have confirmed.
Otherwise, the president of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Kathleen Addy, has praised what has been, broadly speaking, a peaceful and orderly voting process throughout the country.
The outgoing president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, has also expressed his satisfaction with the peaceful holding of the general elections: “I have followed all the reports from all over the country and everything seems to be going well. We thank God for that,” he said. expressed after voting in the Abuakwa region, in the east of the country, in statements collected by the Ghanaian news portal Graphic on Line.
The elections are the ninth since the reintroduction of multipartyism in 1992 following the approval of a new Constitution eleven years after a coup d’état led by Jerry Rawlings that overthrew the then president, Hilla Limann, and ended the Third Republic.
In this case, the NPP has chosen the now vice president, Mahamudu Bawumia, as its candidate to undertake the historic task of obtaining a third consecutive term, something that John Dramani Mahama, the Congress candidate, who appears as the main favorite and hopes to return from this forms the Ghanaian Presidency.
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