Voter turn-out at Bolgatanga has been generally low with the long queues that characterized the general election of December 7 conspicuously absent.

However, in some polling stations in Bolgatanga, Bongo, Zebilla and Bawku, a good number of voters turned out earlier to cast their ballot, and this could be seen in the number of persons who had voted as at the time the GNA visited those centres.

At the Bukere Primary 'A' polling station in Bolgatanga Central, 285 people had voted as at 09.25 hours, out of 996 registered voters.

At ZAMSTECH Secondary 'A' Polling Station, 90 people had cast their ballots as at 0827 hours out of 835 registered voters.

At Adabase Primary 'A' polling station, there were 579 voters on the register out of which 108 had cast their ballots as at 08.35 hours. At Nawongo 'B' polling station, the total number of registered voters was 642, out of which 62 had voted as at 0810 hours.

At Soe Residential Area 'A' polling station, there were 702

registered voters of which 178 persons had voted as at 0915

hours. At Sabongari Central Mosque 'A' polling station in Bawku

Central Constituency, 360 people had voted as at 1006 hours out

of 940 registered voters. At the Home Science Centre 'A' polling

station in the same constituency, 305 people had voted as at 0947

hours while 246 persons had cast their votes at the North Natinga

'A' polling station as at 0956 hours. At Aramkoliga polling station in the Zebilla Constituency, 100

voters had cast their ballots as at 0830 hours with 121 persons

voting at the Zebilla Senior High polling station as at 0914 hours.

At the Old District Assembly polling station, 156 people had cast

their ballots as at 0946 hours. At the Anafobisi Primary polling station in the Bongo

constituency, there were 415 voters on the register, out of which

110 had exercised their franchise as at 0858 hours. At the Old

Catholic Mission polling station also in Bongo, 141 persons had

voted as at 08.50 hours out of 733 registered voters. At the Bongo District Assembly Hall polling station, there

were 839 registered voters out of which 107 had cast their ballots

as at 0812 hours. Presiding officers the GNA spoke to at all the polling centres

visited said voting had taken off smoothly at 0700 hours, with all

the essential voting material in place. Party agents and security

personnel were also present at all the centres. Reasons given for the low turn out included the fact that a

majority of the electorate in the region do not take a keen interest

in the presidential poll as they did in the Parliamentary one. More MI/DK