The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Haruna Mohammed, has disclosed that all is set for the picking of forms on Wednesday, as the party opens nomination for constituencies with incumbent members in parliament.
According to him, the nomination is open for any individual who fits all the criteria in the party’s constitution however, the party has taken necessary steps ahead of the nominations.
“The party has taken the necessary steps to develop the timelines and also to come up with forms for filing, and forms are ready and will be dispatched to all the affected constituencies for sitting members of parliament on December 20 for prospective candidates to pick them. Various election committees are known, and all the directives in the forms are well spelt out. Within this week too, we will be giving the soft copy of the album to the elections committee and all constituencies to relate it to anybody that is going to file for nomination for the parliamentary primaries of our party. The vetting committees being put together will also be announced shortly after the forms have been submitted on December 25.”
Speaking to Citi News, he stated that, the instruction on withholding all campaign activities until the passage of the 2024 budget is approved remains the same.
“The instruction is that campaigns will start immediately after nominations are opened for people to pick nominations, so the statement still holds that campaigns in those constituencies are withheld and stopped so that this will give room for government business to go on and also give fairgrounds for everybody to participate.”
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) announced that nomination in constituencies that have incumbent Members of Parliament will commence on Wednesday, December 20, 2023, and close on Monday, December 25, 2023.
In a presser dated Thursday, December 7, 2023, it stated that the party has rescheduled its parliamentary primaries in these constituencies to Saturday, January 27, 2024, however, the party shall impose stringent sanctions on any member found to have violated these guidelines.
