25, 000 TO VOTE IN ASHANTI NPP CONGRESS
Twenty-five thousand card-bearing members of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti region are expected to cast their votes in decentralized National Delegates Congress of the party scheduled for Saturday, October 18, 2014.
The Congress was first decentralized in 2010 following an amendment to the party's Constitution that year so as to enhance the voting processes and to also allow for easy management and security.
In view of this arrangement, all delegates in each of the 47 Constituencies in the Ashanti region will cast their votes at designated voting centres within their respective Constituencies. The exercise is scheduled to start from 7 am until 3 pm after which the results will be sorted out, counted and declared at those centres before the Regional secretariat collates results from all the Constituencies and forward the entire results to the national head office for the eventual winner to be declared in Accra, the national capital. The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party, Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako told Ashanti Today that the Chairmen of the respective Constituency Council of Elders are in charge of the organization of the elections. However, the entire exercise is to be supervised by officials of the Electoral Commission of Ghana who will declare the results as well.
Also,the Police Command will deploy personnel to provide security at all the polling centres as well as the Regional party office located at Krofrom in Kumasi to ward-off any infractions of the law to cause insecurity or mar the Congress.
At the national level, about 140 thousand members of the NPP are expected to cast their votes in Saturday's Congress across all the 275 Constituencies in the country.
The Director of Communications of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Cephas Arthur, told a Kumasi-based private fm station today, that the Service will deploy about two thousand personnel at all the polling centres in the country.
Three members of the NPP are contesting for the flagbearership of the party ahead of the 2016 national Presidential elections. The three were among five candidates who were chosen at a Special Delegates Congress held on August 29, 2014 to reduce the number of interested candidates from seven to five in line with the party's Constitution.Two of the five; Mr. Joe Ghartey, the incumbent Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and MP for Secondi Ketan in the Western region, and Mr. Osei Ameyaw, the MP for Asuogyaman in the Eastern region stepped down from the contest even though they were shortlisted by the Electoral College during the August 29 Congress.
The three still in the race are the 2008 and 2012 flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, former Minister of Industry, Mr. Alan Kyeremateng and the incumbent MP for Asante Mampong in the Ashanti region, Mr. Francis Addai Nimoh.
The winner of Saturday's Contest will lead the NPP, Ghana's biggest opposition party, into the 2016 presidential race with the hope of reclaiming political power for the party which was voted out of power after eight years in governance under the leadership of Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor.
The Congress was first decentralized in 2010 following an amendment to the party's Constitution that year so as to enhance the voting processes and to also allow for easy management and security.
In view of this arrangement, all delegates in each of the 47 Constituencies in the Ashanti region will cast their votes at designated voting centres within their respective Constituencies. The exercise is scheduled to start from 7 am until 3 pm after which the results will be sorted out, counted and declared at those centres before the Regional secretariat collates results from all the Constituencies and forward the entire results to the national head office for the eventual winner to be declared in Accra, the national capital. The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party, Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako told Ashanti Today that the Chairmen of the respective Constituency Council of Elders are in charge of the organization of the elections. However, the entire exercise is to be supervised by officials of the Electoral Commission of Ghana who will declare the results as well.
Also,the Police Command will deploy personnel to provide security at all the polling centres as well as the Regional party office located at Krofrom in Kumasi to ward-off any infractions of the law to cause insecurity or mar the Congress.
At the national level, about 140 thousand members of the NPP are expected to cast their votes in Saturday's Congress across all the 275 Constituencies in the country.
The Director of Communications of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Cephas Arthur, told a Kumasi-based private fm station today, that the Service will deploy about two thousand personnel at all the polling centres in the country.
Three members of the NPP are contesting for the flagbearership of the party ahead of the 2016 national Presidential elections. The three were among five candidates who were chosen at a Special Delegates Congress held on August 29, 2014 to reduce the number of interested candidates from seven to five in line with the party's Constitution.Two of the five; Mr. Joe Ghartey, the incumbent Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and MP for Secondi Ketan in the Western region, and Mr. Osei Ameyaw, the MP for Asuogyaman in the Eastern region stepped down from the contest even though they were shortlisted by the Electoral College during the August 29 Congress.
The three still in the race are the 2008 and 2012 flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, former Minister of Industry, Mr. Alan Kyeremateng and the incumbent MP for Asante Mampong in the Ashanti region, Mr. Francis Addai Nimoh.
The winner of Saturday's Contest will lead the NPP, Ghana's biggest opposition party, into the 2016 presidential race with the hope of reclaiming political power for the party which was voted out of power after eight years in governance under the leadership of Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor.
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