Voters in rural communities across the Eastern Region appear not to be enthusiastic about voting in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.
This had resulted in low turnout in polling centres located in those areas, a sharp contrast of what had been happening in the urban communities.
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) found no queues, with few voters trickling in at many of the places visited.
Added to this was the delay in the start of the election because the election officials could not sort things out early.
Journalists of the Agency have been covering the polls under the “GNA Tracks the Election 2016” project, sponsored by the Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL), the nation foremost indigenous oil marketing company.
In Koforidua, the story was completely different as voters stood in long meandering queues, waiting patiently to cast their ballot in turns.
At the Betom Anglican Primary School, Adweso Wesley International and the Saint Dominic School centres, people started streaming there long before voting officially started.
Things were the same at Agavenya Roman Catholic Primary ‘A’, Atekyem ‘A’, Galloway Police Station and Betom Presbyterian Primary Centres.
At 10 centres in the Nsawam/Adoagyiri Constituency, in excess of 1,650 voters had voted four hours into the voting.
These included Adoagyiri RC Primary School, Moshgie-line, Islamic School, Wabdra Moshie, Zamamalinen, Oberng Darku RC Primary, Nsawam Ghana Education Service “A” and Wofa Pay
Source: GNA
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RURAL PEOPLE ARE NEGLECTED. THEY HAVE LOST THEIR ENTHUSIASM. THAT IS WHY THEY KEEP MOVING TO THE CITIES. SO CITIES POPULATION KEEP INCREASING AT THE EXPENSE OF THE VILLAGES.THE VILLAGES IN MANY ELECTIONS IN THE PAST BECAME THE POINT FOR FRAUD. IT LOOKS LIKE IT WERE REDUCED THIS TIME
Why should rural folks care? Do they use your flyovers? The Shopping malls? When they go to their local clinics, what kind of care do they get? They work and you chop. You think they are ***barred word***?
all n,p,p people sammy awuku, c,p,p agent, n,p,p agent, must be alert people of ghana should be ready and guide all the ballot boxes all over ghana, there is plan and sinister thinking to steal the boxes, course lite off and stuff the boxes, alll ghana people must be care and beat to pop any people who want to steal the boxes, linch rhem, all n,p,p people must get 12 million mach men ready to defend and guide the boxes all over ghana, , watch the officers who record, when it is 52,000 make sure u see them write 52,000 and not 25,000, this are some tricks be vigilant, from gh people