Director of elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has said that the just-ended primaries of the party to elect parliamentary candidates is the most peaceful so far in the history of the party.
In an interview with Doctar Cann and Mac-Paradise Okocha hosts on Happy FM’s special coverage of the NDC primaries Afriyie Ankrah said “it has been so far so good” across the 16 regions of Ghana despite pockets of misunderstandings at some areas. I must say this the most peaceful I have so far witnessed.”
However, Happy FM’s reporter Kamal Bruce in Ofinso North constituency in the Ashanti Region observed some misunderstandings over the missing names of some delegates waiting to vote in the primaries.
A total of 524 candidates contested the internal polls in 157 constituencies out of 275 to represent the largest opposition party in Parliament in the 2020 general elections.
Thirty-nine Members of Parliament were unopposed. Delegates in 71 constituencies will later to go to the polls to elect their candidates.
By: Joseph Nii Ankrah
