Political Parties Deny Supporting Candidates In Upcoming District Level Elections

The long awaited District Level Elections is three weeks away.

Some candidates continue to gear themselves up as many campaign at the grassroot level to canvass for votes.

One key observation has to do with low publicity and public interest.

Again, some political parties have been accused of throwing their weight behind some of the candidates.

Some candidates also go to the extent of using colours of political parties for their posters which obviously tell where they belong.

Radio Ghana finds out from some political parties what they think about the trend especially when it goes contrary to the District level elections Act.

First, the NDC's First Vice Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo denies the NDC's involvement in campaigning for candidates perceived as NDC members.

In an interview with Radio Ghana, the NPP National Organiser, John Boadu, said “the kind of laws used to run the district assembly elections are anachronistic and archaic and practically it is not possible to have political parties or activists not getting themselves in the district assembly elections.”

The PPP has blamed the NDC and NPP for secretly supporting candidates contesting the district level elections.


Meanwhile, a Local Government Expert, Eric Oduro Sei, has asked political parties to stop supporting candidates contesting the upcoming District Level Elections.

He describes the action as criminal for a political party to openly or secretly campaign for any of the candidates.

The governance expert also supports calls the district assembly elections day should be declared public holidays.

In his view, this will encourage more people to turn up during voting.

In a related development, a National Security task Force to promote peaceful District Level Elections has been inaugurated in Accra.

Members of the Task Force are from the Security Services, the Local Government Ministry and the Electoral Commission.

Inaugurating the task force, the Minister for the Interior, Mark Woyongo said security during elections should not be taken lightly since the absence of it has thrown other nations on the continent into chaos.

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