Over 1,400 delegates to decide in South Tongu NDC Elections 2022
The rescheduled South Tongu Constituency election is currently underway to elect substantive executive officers for the constituency into the 2024 general elections.
Our checks have confirmed that, a total of one thousand, four hundred and eighty-five (1,485) National Democratic Congress (NDC) Delegates are expected to participate in the South Tongu NDC Constituency Executive Elections today, Sunday, 30th October, 2022 at the Comboni Assembly Hall, Sogakope.
The figure includes Delegates from 161 polling station or branches in 40 Electoral Areas, including Constituency Executives, Council of Elders and former Government appointees.
Initially, a total of one thousand, five hundred and thirty (1,530) Delegates were expected to votes in the Constituency Elections.
But, according to the Elections Committee, the National Elections Directorate has exempted Sogakope SHS (Sogasco) Branch A, B, C, D and E totally 45 delegates from the ongoing constituency elections due to election dispute at the branch level.
The election which commenced earlier in the morning is going on peacefully without any chaos as experienced on last Saturday.
The last Saturday’s election, which saw some branches voting was cancelled. Currently, the election process has started afresh for all constituency executive positions.
Today’s elections come off following a directive from the National Elections Directorate sent to the Constituency Chairman and other stakeholders who matters in the elections on Friday, 28th October, 2022.
BACKGROUND
Coverghana.com.gh can report that, the South Tongu Constituency Elections scheduled for last Saturday, 22nd October, 2022 faced an injunction from the National Elections Directorate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Prior to the Constituency Elections, the National Elections Directorate of NDC released a notice signed by Daniel Amartey Mensah the Deputy Director of Elections indicating that, all five branches of Sogakope SHS (SOGASCO) including other constituencies in the Volta, Eastern, Central, Western, Upper West and Greater Accra Regions are on hold until further notice.
The injunction being placed on the five branches at Sogasco few days into the elections generated confusion during the aborted elections organized at the Comboni Assembly Hall, Sogakope.
The South Tongu Constituency NDC elections have been disrupted and finally suspended indefinitely by the Elections Directorate.
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SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh
