Long queues at polling centres several hours before voting starts

Long queues have started forming at the various voting centres across the country as Ghanaians go to the polls today to elect a present and parliamentarians.

Some of the queues which started forming as early as 3pm on the eve of election is to allow people to vote early enough to enable them go about their  daily routine.

"I joined the queue 10 pm last night . i want to vote early so i came to sleep here. Hopefully by 9am i should have voted." Vida Asamoah told  Pulse Ghana's Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu.

In some areas people used cement blocks, stones and gallons to secure their spots in the queues. Others use plastic chairs and wooden benches.

There were arguments about who's stone was placed first in some voting centres.

Voting does not start until 7 am.

Meanwhile electoral materials are being dispatch from the police stations where they were kept to the various polling cnetres.

In Ashiaman Pulse Ghana's Isaac Otuboah captured election officials and the police getting getting ready to dispatch the material as early as 2am.