More than 13,000 delegates spread across the 15 constituencies are expected to vote for the 801 candidates vying for constituency level positions for the National Democratic Congress in the Upper East Region.
This came to light when the Regional Director of Elections for the NDC, Donatus Nyaaba spoke on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show today, October 19, 2022.
“821 contestants filed and went through vetting. Out of those 801 people qualified, 17 positions come this Saturday, October 22, 2022. 20 people were disqualified based on some grounds,” he said.
The 20 persons who were disqualified on a number of reasons, according to Mr.Nyaaba.
“The first one is, we asked that you [the contestant] should be active in the party in the last four years and have registered in the 2018 registration. Somewhere along the line, some people had fallen out. What happened and you were not registered in 2018? They came back and they registered in the limited registration exercise. We are saying if you registered in the recent one, you can only vote and can’t be voted for.”
“The other thing is that you must be a paid up member. Every party would need money and that is our resource base. Some were not able to do that and those were some of the reasons why some people were disqualified.”
“If you look at those that were disqualified, 3 of them have a special case. For one, the person went through the vetting, qualified and then withdrew. The one person was absent. Then another, after filing, he just opted out,” he said.
The highest number of disqualifications came from Builsa South and Builsa North. 5 persons each were disqualified from those areas.
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana
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