Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, Founder of the National Democratic Congress, has cast his vote in the parliamentary primaries underway in all constituencies across the country.
The former President had the crowd’s attention when he arrived at the polling center at the Arts Center in Accra to support his preferred candidate for the constituency.
Meanwhile, Rawlings has his eldest daughter, Zanetor Rawlings, contending other candidates to retain her seat as Member of Parliament for the Korle Klottey Constituency.
At the Amasaman constituency, delegates defied early morning rains to arrive and cast their vote.
A total of 1,230 delegates are expected to cast their votes in the Amasaman constituency.
Five aspirants are seeking to unseat the incumbent Member of Parliament, Emmanuel Nii Okai Laryea who has been the MP for two consecutive terms since the constituency was created in 2012.
Some 524 aspirants are gunning to become parliamentary candidates of the NDC across 157 constituencies.
Five constituencies have been put on hold pending the outcome of some hitches; also, the elections are not taking place in constituencies where the sitting MP is unopposed, General Secretary of the party Johnson Asiedu Nketiah said at a press beefing.
The Greater Accra Region has the highest number of 31 constituencies billed for the first batch.
The rest are Volta Region, 17; Northern, 15; Central, 13; Upper East,13; Eastern, 10; Upper West, 9; Bono East, 9; Bono, 8; Oti, 8; Western,6; North East, 4; Savannah, 4; Western North, 12; Ashanti, 3, and Ahafo, 1.
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