By the close of today, people in the Central Region’s Assin North Constituency will have a new Member of Parliament to represent them.
The by-election was scheduled for June 27 by the Electoral Commission (EC).
A fresh report received by InsightNewsgh.com in the ongoing Assin North by-election is that a man impersonating security officer has been picked up by the police.
A video shared by UTV on Twitter, captures the moment two police officers led the man who disguised himself as a security officer in handcuff in one of the polling stations in Assin North.
Some residents were heard saying “he be NPP guy” as the policemen carried him away. He is seen dressed fully like an army officer.
InisghtNewsgh.com can’t confirm whether the man arrested for impersonating security officer is an NPP guy or not.
Stay tuned for more updates in the ongoing Assin North by-election.
Watch the video below;
Man arrested for impersonating security officer in ongoing Assin North by-election #UTVNews pic.twitter.com/0YmKpwzGtw
— UTV Ghana (@utvghana) June 27, 2023
In a related news, we previously reported that chaos have broken out at the Assin Bereku polling station as some voters are seen exchanging heavy blows.
In a viral video sighted on Twitter shared by UTV, a man is captured busy engaged in a fistfight with another voter while some people gathered to separate them.
The man picked up a stone nearby to attack his opponent by was quickly stopped by some voters who were present at the scene. A police officer was also seen at the scene to restore calm.
InsightNewgh.com is yet to know the cause of the fight out break in the polling station.
After the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate James Gyakye Quayson’s victory in the 2020 parliamentary election was declared invalid.
The Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Quayson had dual citizenship at the time he submitted his nomination paperwork, and it subsequently ordered Parliament to remove his name from its records.
James Gyakye Quayson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) are the three contenders for the position.
