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).
In a latest development to the ongoing Assin North by-election, 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.
Watch the video below;
Blows at Assin Bereku in ongoing by-election to elect new MP#UTVGhana pic.twitter.com/0bBUei3UPt
— UTV Ghana (@utvghana) June 27, 2023
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.
In related news, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Assin North residents to vote against James Quayson of the NDC.
Voting for Mr. Quayson, according to him, would be a waste of time because he would probably be charged with perjury.
