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One person has been hospitalized while several others are reported injured in clashes between some alleged supporters of incumbent NDC MP in the Ningo Prampram constituency, ET Mensah, and his contender Sam Dzata George.

The hoodlums were said to have pounced on a number of people believed to be loyal to George, and inflicted wounds on them.

Some of George’s supporters who survived the brutality have since taken hostage at a Police station.

George, a presidential staffer has called the Party’s voters register for its nationwide parliamentary and presidential primaries today, fraudulent.

In an interview on Kasapa FM, George, a presidential staffer, said the register is nothing but a bad piece of fraudulent work engineered by the  Party’s Greater Accra regional Chairman, Ade Coker.

“We can’t work with this ‘Sakawa’ register. It is fraudulent in every way. Ade Coker has finally succeeded in ensuring a lot of the people who would vote for me are left out. My name has even been taken off the register.”
Today’s polls should begin the process leading to the party’s preparations for the 2016 elections.

Some 7000 Policemen from the Ghana Police Service are taking part in today’s parliamentary and presidential primaries of the ruling National Democratic Congress.

The Service has assured its men have been adequately briefed in what they are anticipating will be a smooth process.

Today’s process is happening a year before the Party come face to face with the main opposition New Patriotic Party, who have since settled on its parliamentary candidates as well as Presidential.

The Party has suspended elections in six constituencies due to outstanding issues.

Ketu South, North Tongu and Nkwanta South constituencies in the Volta Region, have been left out of today’s process.

The rest are Akwatia Constituency in the Eastern Region, Chiana-Paga in the Upper East Region and Bunkpurugu Constituency in the Northern Region.

Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho said the cancellation of elections in the aforementioned constituencies is due to either  court actions or incomplete vetting processes.

Today’s process was preceded by elections in the Amenfi West Constituency in the Western Region as part of  the a pilot of the new biometric process the ruling Party is exploring for the first time.

Polling is taking place in some 269 constituencies.