The Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on the police to provide protection in their stronghold of Brekum in the Assin North constituency.

According to Richard Ahiagbah, the 800 police officers deployed on the ground are not up to the task.

“All we are calling the police to do is to ensure that they provide security the way they promised that they will bring men here," he said in an interview on Joy FM's Midday News on Tuesday.

According to him, elements of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are preventing electorates from coming out in their numbers to vote.

He further accused the NDC of intentionally creating a hostile environment in the area.

“As I speak to you, there is a polling station where initially, they started coming as of 11am or so. When I got here, about 270 something had voted, but the last time I went to check, it has only risen up to 282.

"Naturally, that tells you that people are being prevented from coming to vote because of the hostile environment created, and we saying that this is an intentional deployment of the NDC to ensure that they suppress the votes in our stronghold,” he said.

When asked if his concerns have been reported to the police, he said the party has done that, however, "their performance on the grounds is not matching up".