Following the purported NPP vote in Kumawu against an old voter’s wishes, an EC employee was taken away

After a fight between New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters, voting was suspended for 30 minutes at the Bodomase Methodist Polling Station in the Kumawu Constituency.

In the current by-elections in the Constituency, the NDC supporters asked that a ballot be removed from the voting machine, according to our correspondent Ibrahim Abubakar.

This came about as a result of a complaint made to them by an elderly woman who said that the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) officer who helped her cast her ballot instead thumb-printed for the NPP rather than the NDC as she had requested.

According to our source, it took sending in a police reinforcement unit to calm things down.

According to reports, the EC representative was unable to persuade the audience of the wisdom of her conduct and was afterwards taken away to safety.

The election went on.

Franklin Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, the General Secretary of the NDC, admonished the EC’s Presiding Officer about the event not happening again as he arrived at the station later.

“All that needs to be done is to make it clear that we do not want anything similar to occur again, and we have instructed our agents to always be on guard,” the statement reads.