Close to a thousand members of the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, have stormed the Abuakwa North constituency office of the party in a mad rush to secure forms to contest the polling station election
The forms arrived last night. Some members of the party were already sleeping at the office in wait for the forms.
Initial information that there were not enough forms for all the potential aspirants nearly caused a stampede at the office.
Abuakwa North currently has over 400 polling stations.
The ruling New Patriotic Party has outlined its timetable for the election of Executives from polling stations to the National starting from 2022.
The party said in a statement that, it will begin with the Polling Stations Elections which will start on 20th February, across all the polling stations in the country.
Subsequently, the party will hold its Electoral Area Coordinators election, and the Constituency Executives elections in March, this year.
While the Regional and National Executives Elections will also take place in April and June 2022 respectively.
Already, the Party has issued a code of conduct to regulate the conduct of party members in both presidential and parliamentary primaries ahead of the 2024 elections to avert certain injurious mistakes committed in the 2020 elections.
A statement signed by the Party’s General Secretary, John Boadu said “The code of conduct has been formulated by Article 18 of the New Patriotic Party’s constitution, and it is applicable to party supporters and actors including government Appointees; Ministers; Members of Governing Boards/Councils, Chief Executive Officers of Governmental Institutions; Members of Parliament, Metropolitan. Municipal and District Chief Executives, Aspirants/Potential Candidates, their Supporters and all other Members of the Party”.
According to the Party, “The code of conduct is applicable during the period preceding the opening of nominations for prospective candidates to contest for the party’s presidential and parliamentary elections.”
The statement said National Complaints Committee has been formed to receive complaints of violations and breaches of this code of conduct, through the General Secretary.
The committee comprises the Chairman of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, Lawyer Frank Davies, Chairman of the National Council of Elders, Hackman Owusu Agyeman, and the General Secretary of the Party, John Boadu.
The committee has been tasked to investigate each complaint of violations of the code of conduct to determine whether or not there is a “prima facie case.”
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
