Provisional Results of NPP Presidential Primaries put  Nana Addo in the lead

 
The super delegates’ congress of the New Patriotic Party in the Western Region has ended peaceful in all constituencies with Nana Akufo-Addo, last presidential candidate of the party,  leading the provisional results. 

A tour of most of the Constituencies in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis and other districts of the Region by the GNA, showed that the elections were conducted in a very peaceful manner,  despite the late start of voting in some areas.

At the Bishop Essuah Memorial JHS, voting started on time with 535 delegates expected to cast their ballot.

Despite the seeming delay that resulted in a queue, the elections ended peacefully around three pm with 533 delegates voting in that area.

Mr. Francis  Addai Nimo polled seven votes, Mr Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen had nine votes,  and Nana Akufo-Addo  secured as many as  516 votes, with  one rejected ballot as certified by the Electoral Commission.

The elections in Sekondi saw the Regional Police Commander and his team taking  charge of security. Here again, Nana Akufo Addo polled   294 votes, while Alan Kyerematen polled nine votes, with Addai Nimo getting two votes.

However, 46 delegates failed to cast their votes. In the Jomoro Constituency where  Nana Addo polled 700 votes, Mr  Addai Nimoh had two votes, and  Allan Kyerematen, seven votes, with eight rejected ballots

At Daboase in the Wassa East district, voting started rather late. However, Nana Addo got 456, Allan 21, Addai nimoh five, with two rejected votes.

In the Eastern Region party supporters had started gathering at the polling stations in their constituencies to listen to the final results of the elections by the close of voting at 3pm.

In all, the party members are voting in 26 polling stations in the 26 constituencies in the region.

The major concerns being reported at some of the polling stations is the deletion of the names of some of the party delegates from the voters register.

As at 12.30, at the Abuakwa North Constituency, 282 delegates in the constituency including the Member of Parliament, Mr J. B. Danquah-Adu had cast their votes.

The constituency has 368 registered delegates.

According to Mr Offei Danso, the Presiding Member of the polling station of the constituency at Old Tafo Presbyterian school,  so far 15 of the delegates could not see their names in the voters register.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Mr Allan Kyerematen had  their agents at the polling station, and there were also two police personnel to maintain security.

Oheneba Opoku Ofori Atta, the First Vice Constituency Chairman of the NPP who was at the polling station, expressed the hope that all the registered delegates may vote before the close of the polls.

He said, so far, there has not been any major concern at the polling station.

At the time the GNA visited the polling station, at some few metres away from  the polling station, one of the delegates who could not find his name in the voters register was visibly annoyed and was threatening  to create a scene, but other party members around took him on and he sat in his car and drove off.

SOURCE: GNA