The Presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and wife Rebecca Akufo-Addo have cast their votes in the ongoing Presidential and Parliamentary Elections ongoing nationwide.
An electoral officer at the Methodist Primary School polling station at Bekwai in the Ashanti region has been detained for purportedly committing several electoral offences.
It is over eight hours now since the first voter cast his ballot at the tightly-competitive 2016 Ghana Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Despite a few irregularities ranging from non-appearance of names on the voter register, speculated postponement of polls at Jaman North constituency, etc., the process has been impressively smooth across the nation.
Ghana's main opposition presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo may have lost the two previous elections, but the way he handled those losses resonates with many people in the build-up to Wednesday's poll.
Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission Mr. Samuel Tetteh has said the Commission has made provisions in a way that polling stations which started the voting process elections later than the scheduled time to increase the number of screens and ballot issuers to speed up the process in other to catch up this the closing time.Â
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said he is self-assured the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo will emerge victorious in today’s elections. “I am very confident, I don’t talk 100 percent but I expect Ghana will give it to NPP this time.â€
Political parties contesting in the Jaman North constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region have agreed to postpone to tomorrow [Thursday] voting in the constituency to correct some anomalies
At  the end of today’s exercise at the various 28,992 polling stations in 275 constituencies across Ghana, the outcome will either give Ghana a new first lady or Gentleman or retain the current First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama.
Kwabena Agyepong, the suspended General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has donated GHC 82,000 to support the campaign efforts of the parliamentary candidates of the party in deprived constituencies ahead of tomorrow’s elections.
President John Dramani Mahama says, apart from the National Democratic Congress(NDC), success under the New Patriotic Party(NPP) and any other political party is not guaranteed.
The management of Madison Lodge, the hotel in which three bags of fake ballot papers were impounded by the police, is blaming the Ashanti regional chairman for masterminding the scandal.
