EC Releases Date For Ejisu By-election

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has announced April 30 for a by-election to fill the vacant Ejisu Constituency seat in Parliament.

In a statement, the EC directed interested candidates to download the nomination forms from the Commission’s website from April 9 to April 18.

The filled forms, it said, should be submitted between April 16 and April 18.

The EC directed, “A prospective Candidate may personally deliver or cause to be delivered on his/her behalf by either the Proposer or Seconder of his/her Nomination, the completed Nomination Forms to the Returning Officer at the Ejisu District Office of the Commission on the dates and times stated above.

“The Nomination Forms for each Candidate shall be witnessed by the signature or mark of two registered voters as Proposer and Seconder, and supported by eighteen other registered voters in the Constituency as assenting to the Nominations. The Nomination Forms shall also be endorsed with the Candidate’s consent to the Nomination.

“A Candidate shall at the time of submitting his/her completed Nomination Forms, provide the Returning Officer with two (2) copies of a recent postcard (bust sized) photograph against a red background, showing his/her full face and ears… All completed Nomination Forms are expected to be delivered in quadruplicate.”

The filing fee for the election is pegged at GHC10,000 per candidate.

The Ejisu seat was rendered vacant after the death of John Ampontuah Kumah. He died on Thursday, February 7, 2024, after battling a terminal illness, according to his wife.

Source: opemsuo.com /Hajara Fuseini