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NDC Parliamentary Primaries Set For August 24

JohnsonAsiedu Nketia – General Secretary of NDC

The opposition National Democratic
Congress (NDC) is scheduled to hold its Parliamentary primaries on August 24,
2019.

General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson
Asiedu Nketia, made the announcement at a press conference last week in Accra.

According to him, from July 10 to 12, the
NDC would open nominations to all aspirants who want to contest in all the constituencies’
party offices with the exception of Afram plains where they would pick their
nomination forms from the General Secretary of the party at the party
headquarters in Accra.

He said women and People Living with
Disability have been given a special dispensation.

According to him, they have been allowed
to pay half of the original amount for the filing of nominations forms of only
Gh¢ 12,500.

On the guidelines for the election, he
revealed that aspirants should satisfy the constitutional
requirement which qualifies one to be a Member of Parliament.

The General Secretary said aspirant should also satisfy the requirements of the party, adding that no one will be disqualified based on normal procedural errors.

BY Melvin Tarlue

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