John Boadu
The rulling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced today Tuesday April 19 to April 20, 2022 as the dates of the opening of Nominations for the Constituency internal elections across the country.
According to the party, it has also fixed April 21 to 22, 2022 for vetting of aspirants whereas dates for any appeals have been scheduled for April 23 to April 24.
Date for the main constituency elections has been fixed for April 28 to May 1, 2022.
The party had initially scheduled April 24, 2022, to April 28, 2022, to hold the elections, but had been scheduled for between April 28, 2022, and May 2, 2022 as a result of some developments.
General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu says other dates remain unchanged.
He stated that “The National Executive Committee initially decided that the constituency elections would be held between 28th April and 2nd May. But we have postponed it. However, all is on course. In fact, nominations will be opened and closed between the 19th and 20th of April and vetting of prospective aspirants will be done between 21st and 22nd April.
“If there is any redress, it will also be held between 23rd and 24th of April,” he said.
Few days after the constituency elections, the preparation for the Regional elections will proceed.
Opening of Nominations will be May 15 to 20, 2022, followed by vetting of aspirants on May 21 to 22, 2022, Appeals follow immediately on May 23 to 24, 2022 before the elections itself on May 27 to 29, 2022.
The party has also scheduled the National Executive Elections for July 14 to July 16 this year.
Opening of nomination will start June1 to 4, 2022 ahead of vetting of aspirants on June 7 to 10, 2022 before appeals onJune 15 to 20, 2022 and release of appeals report from June 22, 2022.
Already, the party has stated that as part of measures to make nomination forms more accessible to all interested party members, it has resolved to upload the forms on its website and social media platforms for free downloads.
The General Secretary of the party, John Boadu has said members who would download the forms would be required to submit the completed nomination forms to the respective offices.
He also indicated that notwithstanding the upload of the forms online, the party would send at least five hardcopies of the nomination forms to each Electoral Area for interested members.
Touching on some developments that had emerged from the party’s recently held polling station elections, the NPP’s chief scribe said the party would take disciplinary action against all persons whose actions resulted in bringing the name of the party into disrepute during the elections.
According to him, although the party’s recent polling stations elections were largely successful, the exercise witnessed pockets of disturbances in some places.
For him, many of the issues that resulted in the disturbances could have been avoided if the aggrieved supporters had used the party’s laid down procedures to resolve them.
By Vincent Kubi