There are rife accusations and counter-accusations as much as a denial of vote buying among the two major political parties in the by-election ongoing in the Assin North constituency in the Central Region.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) party functionaries have accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of buying votes saying they are giving out between 20 cedis and 200 cedis to voters.
The Member of Parliament for Bodi in the Western North Region, Sampson Ahi who is the constituency monitoring the election alleged that there was “blatant” sharing of money to buy votes at the Assin Bereku Presby school park by NPP members and described it as “unfortunate”.
He accused the governing NPP of sharing money and asking the people to vote for them.
Meanwhile, the same accusations have been leveled against the NDC who have been accused of sharing cutlasses, weedicides, and pesticides with voters.
Travel facilitation money
The Member of Parliament for Bodi, Sampson Ahi who described himself as a lead prompter said he was in charge of disbursing monies which he said were from his own resources to people to facilitate their travel to vote.
He indicated that many members of the party would not have turned out to vote if they had not facilitated their travel.
