Eleven of out the 23 constituencies in the Central region are not voting in the on-going elections of the National Democratic Congress to elect parliamentary candidates.
The reasons are varied including constituencies with unopposed candidates, disqualification, contentions and mistakes with ballot papers.
The Cape Coast North, Upper Denkyira East and Upper Denkyira East constituencies had sole candidates who were unopposed and were therefore elected by popular acclamation.
The Effutu and Awutu Senya East elections were put on hold due to some misunderstandings.
The Central Regional Director of elections of the NDC, Mrs Gloria Koomson told Graphic Online “the party felt it was not safe to have the elections in these two constituencies. These don’t even have dates for their elections yet. A date would be fixed later.”
Assin Central pending
The election for the Assin Central constituency is also pending because its only candidate was disqualified by the vetting committee. “We would have to open fresh nominations in Assin Central.
The Agona East election has a court injunction placed on it, following a last minute case filed by a member of the party.