Educate voters to correctly thumbprint the ballot papers

Buoho, (Ash), Oct. 23, GNA – The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged its polling station coordinators to intensify their education of voters on how to properly thumbprint the ballot papers.  Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, Kwabre West Constituency Chairman of the party, said this was necessary to reduce the high number of rejected ballots during elections.  He was inaugurating a branch of the NPP Nasara Club at Buoho in the Ashanti Region.  He said the coordinators should not only work hard to win over more voters but equally help them to do the right thing on the voting day.  Odeneho Appiah reminded the supporters to accept to make the needed sacrifices to bring the NPP back to power.  He said each and every one of them must play a part in the party’s electoral success on December 7.  He encouraged members of the Nasara Club to step up their house-to-house campaign in the Zongo communities to broaden the party’s appeal to voters in those areas.  Mr Williams Owuraku Aidoo, NPP parliamentary candidate, said the free senior high school (SHS) education promise was not a mere rhetoric to win votes and that it would be implemented to give all Ghanaian children, irrespective of the economic background of their parents, access to secondary education.      Mr Yusif Sule, Chairman of the Club, noted that people in the Zongo communities stood to benefit the most from the free SHS policy and would not be deceived by the propaganda of the party’s opponents.   GNA ... Read Full Story