The Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has had his name verified in the voters’ register.
Amissah-Arthur, who has been retained as the running-mate of President John Dramani Mahama for December’s elections, was at the Accra High School polling station, where he votes, to check his details in the voters’ roll.
The Vice President joins the list of high-profile personalities who have taken part in the exhibition exercise.
President Mahama verified his name on Wednesday at a polling station in the Bole/Bamboi constituency in the Northern Region, which was swamped by enthusiastic supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was at the Rock of Ages B Exhibition Centre in the Akyem Abuakwa South Constituency in the Eastern Region a day earlier.
Other people including Ghana’s former President John Agyekum Kufuor and the NPP’s running-mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia have also had their names verified in recent weeks.
The exhibition exercise which commenced on Monday July 18 and ends on August 7, 2016.
The exercise will enable all voters to check their names in the register, and also help to delete ‘undesirable’ names on the electoral roll. The exhibition exercise is taking place in 29,000 polling stations across the country.
This year’s exhibition is lasting for 21 days instead of the usual 14 days.
According to the Electoral Commission, although patronage of the exercise is low, about one million potential voters verified their names in three days of its commencement.
By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana