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Voting is yet to take place in the Kumbungu Constituency in the Northern Region were five candidates including the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Youth Authority (NYA), Mr. Ras Mubarak is contesting.

As at the time of filing this report around 11.35am all the five contestants were said to have been summoned to the Regional Party Secretariat in Tamale to resolve the dispute over the voters register for the election in the constituency.

The reason for the freeze on the election in the Kumbungu Constituency is the emergence of a new register after the one that all the candidates decided to use for the election was suspended.
 

According to sources close to the party in Kumbungu, the aspirants agreed on a certified voters register with a total of 14,207 voters but just less than 24 hours to voting today, the register was changed which is said to contain a total of 14,739 voters and has since been the subject of dispute.

This latest development did not go down well with some of the aspirants and the matter was sent to the regional secretariat for amicable settlement.

The other contestants in the Kumbungu race are Amadu Abdul-Kahad, Imoro Yakubu Kakpagu, Abdallah Baba Ibrahim and Dr. Hamza Adam.

Meanwhile a team of police and military personnel have been deployed in the area to maintain law and order.

Aside the Kumbungu constituency where voting is yet to start, voting is ongoing in all the other constituencies in the region apart from Bunkpurugu were an injunction has been placed on the election there.

A visit to Gumbihini voting centre as at 9.35, am showed a total of 230 people out of a total of 579 who are expected to cast their votes there had voted. The centre is a combination of three polling stations in the Tamale Central Constituency.

At the 1st November Basic School in the Sagnarigu Constituency, a total of 212 people had cast their votes out of a total of 1,409 registered voters as at 10.40am which is also made up of three polling stations.