The Carter Centre Election Observer Team says Ghanaians should overcome the built-up tension leading up to the run-off and repeat the impressive performance of December 7 that saw fair, transparent and credible elections. Speaking to journalists at the Madina Police Station polling station, Dr John Stremlau, Vice-President for Peace Programmes at the Carter Centre, said the stakes in the run-off were high and required vigilance on the part of the electorate and election officials. He said the observers had been encouraged by the measures put in place to ensure that the elections were conducted in a free, fair and transparent manner, saying there could not be any perfect system anywhere. Mr. Aminu Bello Masari, former Speaker of the House of Representatives in Nigeria, who is co-leader of the delegation, said the voting process had been orderly and urged Ghanaians to do the right thing that they started on December 7. He said a successful conduct of the election in Ghana would be a major milestone for Africa and send signals to other countries that there was no alternative to democracy. The 58-member team of the Carter Centre has been deployed in the 10 regions and will release preliminary findings on its observation of the run-off elections on Tuesday. Meanwhile, voting had been going on smoothly when the GNA visited some polling stations within the Abokobi-Madina constituency in the Ga East District. At the Madina Police Station polling station, voting commenced at exactly 0700 hours. Long before the commencement of voting the enthusiastic crowd kept their positions in the queue in an orderly manner. At about 0730 hrs when the GNA left the centre over 30 people had voted. At the Central Mosque A and B polling stations, the Presiding Officers Mr Emmanuel Ahiavi and Mr. Albert Aboagye respectively said they received the electoral materials as early as 0430 hrs and voting commenced exactly at 0700 hours. Similar trends were observed at the New Apostolic Church polling station and Sub-district office Madina A and B polling stations where voters waited patiently in the long and winding queues to cast their ballot. Source: GNA