The National Steering Committee of the New Patriotic Party has approved a timetable of the Northern Regional Executive Committee for the conduct of the Savelugu constituency internal elections.
The NPP could not organized the polls in 2022 due to the 2020 Parliamentary elections petition at the Tamale High Court.
But the party has now agreed to conduct the elections on April 29, 2023. Before that, however, the party will elect polling station officers and electoral area coordinators to form the delegates album or register which will also include members of the constituency council of elders and patrons.
THE CUSTODIAN has gathered the Constituency elections committee in line with the roadmap for the polls, has successfully completed the polling station elections in 123 centers which started on 28th March with the opening of nominations and election concluded on April 6.
THE CUSTODIAN Northern Regional Correspondent, Mohammed Gadafi, reports that the electoral area coordinators election which is next on the agenda has also started.
11 out of 25 electoral area coordinators are being contested and the elections committee on Wednesday, April 12 begun conducting the polls which is expected to end on Friday April 14, 2023, as stipulated in the elections timetable.
Exclusive information obtained by THE CUSTODIAN indicates that Kukobila, Kadia/Zoosali, Dugbli yili South, Tindang, Kultanaali, Nyoglo, Moglaa, Nayili fong North, Nakohagu, Limam fong and Kogga fong electoral areas are subject for elections because the incumbents have been contested.
Meanwhile, in an interaction with some of the constituency aspirants and the youth have welcomed the development and commended the hierarchy of the party for allowing democracy to thrive in the constituency.
They believe anything short of this would’ve been a recipe for destruction of the party’s fortunes in the 2024 general election.
