The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has issued a strict warning to all delegates participating in its flagbearer primaries scheduled for Saturday, January 31, against bringing mobile phones into the inner sections of polling centres.
Any delegate who flouts the rule, the party warned, will be arrested, prosecuted by the police, and denied the right to vote.
Isaac Baah Boamah, a member of the NPP Presidential Election Committee, speaking to Citi News on Friday, January 30, disclosed the detailed voting arrangements and rules.
“The electoral officials, per the guidelines, have been told that it is a walk-in exercise. The areas will be demarcated into three sections: the outer section, the middle section, and the inner section. The outer section is where the electoral officials will identify you using your ID card for this exercise.
“We have approved four forms of identification; any one of them will be a permissible voter’s ID, party ID, national passport, or Ghana card. Any delegate without an ID cannot cast a ballot,” he explained.
Boamah highlighted that party officials will not validate or confirm the identity of any person for this exercise.
“I urge every delegate to go and look for their ID card before they come to vote. When you enter the inner circle, you are not supposed to go in with any foreign material, including mobile phones,” he said.
The ballot paper for the primary will see the faces of former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, former Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong; Abetifi MP, Dr Bryan Acheampong, Bosomtwe MP, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum; and former NPP General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong.
