By Elizabeth Awinbono, GNA
Accra, Oct 10, GNA –
Seventeen aspirants have picked nomination forms to contest for the District
Assembly and Unit Committee elections 2019 at the Anyaa East electoral area in
the Ga-Central Municipality.
Out of this number,
four aspirants will contest for the District Assembly and 13 for the Unit
Committee elections.
However, as at
Thursday, October 10 at 1020 hours, eleven of them had successfully filed their
nominations to contest the elections slated for December 17 this year.
Mr Samuel Okoe, the
Returning Officer, Special Duty for the Anyaa East Electoral Area confirmed to
the Ghana News Agency.
He said three of them
had filed for the District Assembly position, while the other eight would be
vying for a place in the Unit Committee.
On gender diversity,
he said only one female had filed for nomination to contest for the District
Assembly position in the upcoming District elections.
Mr Okoe said he
encountered many challenges with regards to the filling of the forms adding
that, some aspirants mixed small letters with capital while others used small
letters instead of capital letters.
Some forms have also
not been endorsed.
He advised aspirants
to file their forms early in order to have errors corrected before the
deadline.
Aspirants for the
Assembly include;, Vitoria Korang, Thompson Atitso, William Kabanda and Ekow
Gym, while Ebenezer Sackey Baffle, Mustapha Hadji Osman, Salisu Amadu, Jonathan
Kwasi Otoo, Eric Opoku, Benjamin Adjetey, Paul Sowah Oko, Charles Nchamba,
Godwin Kumahor, Kingsford Otchere, Christian Sarpong, Allotey- Annan Terrence
McDonnell, William Kabanda.
Nomination ends on
Friday October 11, 2019 at 1700 hours at all electoral areas.
GNA
