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Sunyani Township, particularly the central business district, was quiet on Sunday when political campaigns and other politics-related activities came to a halt at midnight on Saturday.
The law that regulates the activities of the Electoral Commission prohibits political parties from campaigning 24 hours before the general elections.
On the basis of that law, political parties could not publicly display even party colors and that was an important factor contributing to the silence in Sunyani Township.
This is because types of vehicles, especially campaign vans in the colors of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), could be seen crossing the length and breadth of the city with mounted speakers playing songs. partying to win the sympathy of floating voters in the past three months.
Therefore, all brand-name pick-ups and other campaign vans were covered to hide their colors and political identities ahead of Monday’s elections.
Consequently, during the Ghana News Agency (GNA) rounds at the CBD, it was discovered that the party posters, banners and flags that are mostly found everywhere did not exist because they had all been removed in accordance with the law.
—GNA
