By GNA Kumasi Team
Kumasi Dec. 07, GNA – The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, together with the wife, Lady Julia, joined registered voters at the Manhyia polling station ‘1’ to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
Clad in exquisite Kente cloth, the Asantehene was accompanied by a large retinue of chiefs, to cast his ballot at exactly 12 noon.
The Manhyia polling station ‘1’ has a total of 370 registered voters, and as of the time he got to the centre, 150 voters had already voted.
Some election observers, both foreign and local, as well as journalists were seen at the polling station observing proceedings.
In the Asawase Constituency, the NPP Parliamentary Candidate, Mr. Manaf Ibrahim, joined the long queue of voters at the Akrom polling station to cast his ballot.
Mr. Manaf is contesting the seat with Alhaji Mubarak Muntaka, the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Asawase, who has held the seat since 2006.
At the palace polling station at Nkawie, the NPP Parliamentary Candidate, Ms Shirley Kyei, asked her supporters to be ambassadors of peace.
She appealed to everybody to comport themselves.
In a related development, Mr. Andrew Augustus Nana Kwasi, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NDC, has asked all registered voters to go out to vote.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency after casting his ballot at the Akyawkrom Methodist Primary school polling centre in the Ejisu constituency, he praised the conduct of the polls.
GNA