Aspiring NPP Chairpersons to pay 5K filing fee, 2K for other positions

All persons aspiring for the Chairperson positions in all 16 regions in the upcoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) Regional Annual Delegates Conference, will be paying a filing fee of five thousand Ghana cedis (GHC5,000.00), the NPP’s second highest decision making body, the National Council, has announced.

According to a communique issued by the party on 13 May 2022 and signed by the Party’s General Secretary, John Boadu, the National Council at a meeting held on Thursday 12 May 2022, also approved a filing fee of two thousand Ghana cedis (GHc2,000.00) for all persons aspiring for other positions.

Positions

Apart from the Regional Chairmanship positions, the other positions to be contested during the Regional Annual Delegates Conference are; 1st Regional Vice Chairperson, and 2nd Regional Vice Chairperson.

The rest being Regional Secretary, Assistant Regional Secretary, Regional Treasurer, Regional Organizer, Regional Women Organizer, Regional Youth Organizer, and Regional Nasara Coordinator.

Internal mechanisms

As part of the rules and regulations approved by the National Council for the conduct of the elections, all persons who decide to contest for positions in the regional elections would have to exhaust all internal grievance mechanisms and not resort to external mechanisms.

“Any member of the party or aspirant who feels aggrieved at any point in the process SHALL exhaust ALL available internal resolution mechanisms in accordance with Article 4 of the Party Constitution and the decision of the National Appeals Committee on the matter shall be final and binding,” the communique signed by John Boadu indicated.

Re-affirm suspensions

Following the review of the Constituency Executives Elections, by the National Council at its 12 May meeting, and having regard to the peculiar nature of Assin North, Jomoro and Savelugu Constituencies, where the Party is challenging the 2020 Parliamentary Elections results in court, the communique noted that the National Council decided to re-affirm “the Party’s decision to temporarily suspend the conduct of Constituency Executives Elections in these three Constituencies until further notice”.

“The National Council thereupon decided, pursuant to Article 10(3)(1) of the Party Constitution, and considering the exigencies of the situation at hand, to extend the mandate of the current Constituency Executives in these three Constituencies (Assin North, Jomoro and Savelugu), to enable the Constituency Executives participate in the impending Regional and Annual Delegates Conference of the Party, until otherwise communicated by the Party having regard to developments in court with respect to the election petitions,” the communique read.

The NPP’s Regional Annual Delegates Conference shall, among other things, elect Regional Executive Officers of the party between 27 and 29 May 2022, for a four-year term. SOURCE: AsaaseRadio.