By Solomon T Gaye
The senatorial by-election turnout was poor in almost all precincts in all nine electoral districts across the county.
Speaking to this paper in Ganta, elder Robert Mehn expressed disappointment over the low turnout of the residents in electoral District 1 in Bain-Garr, Nimba County.
According to elder Mehn, the low turnout is due to the alleged massive trucking of voters by the four candidates in the race which include; Nyan Tuayen, Thomas Grupee, Sam Kogar, and Gobac Selekpo respectively.
During a routine at the John Wesley Pearson Campus, five centers were completely deserted as well as the Gbloryee Market, the Francis Nyan Manweah Public School, among others in the district.
Ganta is also situated in Bain-Garr but consist of electoral Districts 1 and 2 with district 1 comprising of 36,137 voters while District 2 has 38, 562 eligible voters.
The NEC is reported that District 3 has 39, 325 voters, District 4 has 35, 350, District 5 got 29, 823, District 6 has 29, 994, District 7 has 35, 775, District 8 got 34, 283, and District 9 has 27, 645 accordingly.
Tuayen is a candidate of Unity Party; Samuel Kogar, a PUP candidate; Thomas Grupee from the Reform National Congress and Gobac Selekpo from the Liberia National Union respectively.
Since the beginning of April 2024, the four candidates have been preaching tribal politics in all nine electoral districts calling on the residents to vote on tribal line.
