New Patriotic Party (NPP) Director of Elections, Evans Nimako, has rubbished projections by Global InfoAnalytics suggesting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is set to win the Akwatia by-election.
The poll placed NDC candidate Bernard Bediako Baidoo at 53% against 47% for NPP’s Solomon Kwame Asumadu.
But Nimako, speaking to the media questioned its credibility, arguing that “a report that claims most respondents are NPP affiliates yet concludes the NDC candidate is ahead is highly questionable.”
Nimako insisted that feedback from the ground shows Asumadu remains the choice of the people and will emerge victorious once the ballots are counted.
The NDC, however, has countered with confidence of its own, pointing not only to the Global InfoAnalytics survey but also to a Sanity Africa poll, which gave Baidoo 52.3% against Asumadu’s 47.7%, as signs of momentum in their favor.
Meanwhile, voting is underway at 119 polling stations across 21 electoral areas, with more than 52,000 registered voters expected to participate. The exercise, which began at 7:00 a.m., will close at 5:00 p.m. under heavy police presence before counting begins.
