NDC snatching Tema West constituency parliamentary seat from NPP

Della Russel Ocloo reports from the Tema West Constituency that indications are pointing to a win for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the first time since 1996. 

The move is evident in the spirited fight the party officials and its agents have put up especially on voting day maintaining vigilance and preventing the transportation of ballot boxes in taxicabs to the collation centre at the Tema Secondary School at Community Five.

The NDC Candidate, James Enu, a private legal practitioner who contested the seat for the second time, after his failed attempt in 2016 put up a spirited fight against new entrant, Dennis Sefah Amfo, former Constituency Chairman of the NDC in the constituency and a protege of the outgoing Member of Parliament, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah.

While voting was generally peaceful in the 283 polling stations scattered across the constituency, there was isolated incidents of chaos and near voilence at the BBC, Mexico School and the Mount Zion Methodist School polling stations.

At the Mount Zion School, there were near fisticuffs when an electoral officer was alleged to have carried a ballot into a car stationed around the polling centre. 

The representatives of the NDC raised an alarm describing the incident as an attempt to snatch ballot box.

In the meantime, although the EC is yet to release the provisional results owing to the delays in the collation processes, majority of the sympathisers of the governing NPP seem to have deserted the centre leaving the NDC supporters to crowd the gates at the collation centre singing and chanting after the Police denied them entry into the facility.