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Ahafo area records 99.68% YES to meet Constitutional requirement of 80%

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The Yes Campaign in the Ahafo area of Bono-Ahafo due to the Registered Voters Roll of 307,108, required that just over 153 thousand Voters turn out in order to achieve the Constitutional requirement of 50 percent turn out to make the Referendum on Creation of New Regions in the area valid.

In the final analysis, they not only achieved more than that with 277,663 Valid Votes Cast, but also garnered 99 point 68 percent Yes Vote to meet the other Constitutional requirement of 80 percent Yes Vote.

This was announced after a lengthy wait by a former Bono-Ahafo Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, George Gyabaah at the Ahafo Referendum Collation Centre at Kenyasi in the Asutifi District.

Mr. Gyabaah also announced that the Yes votes numbered; 277,438, while that for No was 675.

The Nana Osei Kofi Abiri Community Centre at Kenyasi was almost deserted when the EC Officials finally got ready to announce the results of the Referendum on Creation of New Regions in Ahafo.

The handful of people left, dominated by the Media and some Agents of the Ahafo Region Agenda listened with rapt attention as a Former Regional Director of the EC, George Gyabaah delivered the results.

The Results also showed that five Districts, Asutifi South and North, Tano North and South and Asunafo South recorded over 90 percent turn out while the sixth District in Ahafo, Asunafo North achieved 85 point 92 percent turnout.

Earlier, the DCE for Dormaa East in the Bono-Ahafo Region, Emmanuel Agyemang, has expressed his support for the creation of two more Regions out of Bono-Ahafo, saying the move promises more development for the old region and the two new ones.

He said this when he spoke to GBC at Goaso in the Ahafo area of Bono-Ahafo.

Although the Dormaa East District is not within the areas where the new regions could be created in Ahafo and Bono East, the DCE Emmanuel Agyemang was in Ahafo on Referendum day.

He accompanied the Bono-Ahafo Regional Minister, on his monitoring rounds in both Ahafo and Bono-East.

Radio Ghana sought to find out why he was in Ahafo when his District is not in the Referendum areas.

He stressed that the whole Region is in support of the Region Creation Agenda because it promises rapid development for Ahafo, Bono East and the old Bono-Ahafo.

Story by John Sam-Arthur

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