Unlike the 7th December polls which saw long queues as early as 5:30am at most polling stations, the run-off took off slowly and as one presiding officer puts, “the turn out is not low rather its slow”.
At exactly 7am most polling stations had started voting whereas the remaining, frantic efforts in terms of the conveying of electoral materials to the polling stations were being made for them to also to start in good time.
When the queues started forming at the polling stations, adequate security were already deployed which by and large saw a peaceful and orderly voting pattern in the municipality. By 3pm most polling stations were eventually empty with electoral officials waiting patiently to bring the voting to a close at the official time of 5pm.
Counting and declaration at the polling stations generally were very peaceful with few recording votes which were contested by some party agents and when they failed to reconcile the figures in good time it led to the contesting agents sustaining cutlass injuries in their heads. They were subsequently admitted, treated and discharged the next day. Some other group of persons who attempted cheating were also apprehended and the cases are under investigation by the police in Bawku.
By the end of the collation and declaration of the results, NDC Prof J.E.A Mills won all the three constituencies within the municipality. In Bawku central, NDC had 23800 votes as against NPP Nana Addo 18540. In Pusiga and Binduri constituencies, NDC won by 12996 votes and 13139 whiles NPP had 4399 votes and 5449 votes respectively.
Generally the polls in Bawku were peaceful, calm and orderly with security totally on top of the area.
James Dorgbetor
Municipal Information Officer
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