Controversy sparked the begining of the primaries to elect an NDC parliamentary candidate for Nkwanta South after three different voters registers popped up.

The aspirants submitted a different register from the constituency’s register apart from the version brought by the EC.

But the initial confusion was resolved after a crunch meeting with Deputy regional minister, regional womens’ orgnaiser, some party executives and aspirants, Volta regional correspondent Fred Quame Asare has reported.

There is consensus that the EC’s register is the legitimate document to be used by more than 17,000 card bearing members of the NDC in voting at 90 polling centres across the constituency.

Election of a parliamentary candidate was put on hold during the November 2015 nationwide parliamentary primaries by the NDC party hierarchy for reasons they described as “strategic”.

The incumbent MP, Gershon Bediame, is facing competition from Dr Felix Anebor, a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Geoffrey Kini, an entrepreneur, one Solomon Bagme and Narayana Osei Nyarko Charles, banker and a lawyer.

Due to a seeming tension in the constituency, the Regional Security Council has deployed a team of police and military personnel to the constituency to ensure law and order during the exercise.

The constituency secretary Julius Kwashigah, assured of a smooth election process in the Nkwanta South constituency adding that all logistics have been deployed to the District office of the Electoral Commission for onward distribution to the polling centres to conduct the elections.