Antoa Pops Up• At Polling Stations

Daniel Ohene Agyekum - NDCChairman A National Democratic Congress (NDC) agent, during Sunday's presidential run-off at the New Tafo M/A Junior High School polling station in the Manhyia constituency in Kumasi, stunned the voting public when he invoked the 'Antoa Nyamaa' deity on electoral officers at the center.

Daniel Bempeh, a resident of Dichemso, invoked the spirit of the Ashanti deity to kill the electoral officers, should they compromise their position and allow the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to rig the elections.

Bempeh came to the center with the belief that the NPP was going to rig the polls and therefore refused to sit at the place designated for party agents, insisting he would stand directly behind the electoral officers to ensure that no rigging took place.

DAILY GUIDE gathered that whereas the NPP agent comported himself and agreed to sit at the right place, the NDC agent ignored the instruction and began fomenting trouble.

The NDC agent's behaviour, according to sources, infuriated voters, who pushed him to his assigned seat.

Eyewitnesses told the paper that the agitated NDC agent, as soon as he was made to take his seat, invoked the spirit of the Antoa deity to kill the electoral officers.

The action, DAILY GUIDE gathered, irritated voters at the scene who nearly pounced on the NDC agent but he was saved by the police present.

The eyewitnesses indicated that Bempeh later left the place for another agent to take over.

The Presiding Officer at the center, Osei Poku Gyamfi confirmed the incident but indicated that it did not affect the voting process at the center.

In a related development, another sympathiser of the NDC at Anwia-Nkwanta in the Bekwai constituency, Madam Adwoa Serwaa also invoked the spirit of Antoa Nyamaa and other deities in the Ashanti region to kill members of the NPP who would attempt to vote more than once in Sunday's polls.

From Morgan Owusu, Kumasi