All 30 aspirants who filed their nominations to contest the upcoming Parliamentary primaries of the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) within the Higher West Area have been cleared after efficiently going by the vetting course of. The vetting train, which was anticipated to begin at about 9 am on Monday, April 3, began at round 11 am and ended round 11 pm.
Out of the 30 aspirants, Jennifer Nanfuri, the one feminine, is contesting for the Jirapa Constituency slot towards the incumbent MP, Cletus Dapilaah, and Brilliant Salia. A press assertion signed by the Higher West Regional Communications Officer of the NDC, Issah Kantagyere counseled the aspirants and their supporters for exercising restraint to make sure a violence-free train.
The Deputy Nationwide Ladies’s Organiser and member of the Nationwide Government Committee (NEC), Abigail Elorm Mensah chaired the five-member vetting committee with Mohammed Alhassan who can be a member of the NEC. Different members included Abdul Nasir Saani, NDC Higher West Regional Chairman; Alhaji Nurah Issah Danwanaa, Deputy Regional Secretary and Hajia Bintu, Regional Council of Elders’ consultant.
The assertion advised the aspirants to put the curiosity of the get together forward of their private pursuits as profitable all eleven seats within the area for the get together come 2024 was paramount. Talking after going by the vetting course of, Bede A. Ziedeng, the incumbent MP for the Lawra, expressed confidence that he would win the primaries overwhelmingly on Could 13, 2023, contemplating his achievement in his first time period in workplace. “I’m assured, completely assured that I’m going to win this election due to what I’ve completed within the constituency within the well being sector, schooling, and water and sanitation,” Mr Ziedeng defined.