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The regions are the Northern Region and the two newly created regions of Savannah and Northeast that have been cut out of the Northern Region.
Until the creation of the Savannah and Northeast regions, the existing northern region had 31 constituencies, but now has 18, while the Savannah and Northeast regions have 7 and 6 ridings respectively.
At the closing of NDC's parliamentary primary candidates on July 12, 2019, a total of 50 people, excluding the constituencies of Bimbilla and Kpandai, submitted their nominations to run in 16 of the 18 constituencies of the NDC. Northern region. .
In the Savannah region, a total of 16 people applied in the seven electoral districts, while in the Northeast region, 21 people sent their application form to five of the constituencies excluding Chereponi.
Elections will be held in 24 of the 18 constituencies in the Northern Region and in 5 of the six constituencies in the Northeast Region on August 24, 2019, with the exception of Bimbilla and Kpandai in the Northern Region and Chereponi in the Northeast region, where the party suspended the primaries to elect parliamentary candidates who will vie for the party's candidacy in the 2020 general election.
The decision to suspend the parliamentary primaries in the three constituencies is to organize the elections gradually, according to the National Executive Committee of the party in a statement of the party's general secretary, Mr. Johnson Aseidu Nketia.
He appealed to those who asked for restraint in the affected ridings.
Without opposition
Haruna Iddrisu, member of the parliamentary minority and MP for Tamale South, and Alhbadan Sualihu Dandaawa, MP for Karaga, are the two deputies sitting in the northern region who did not oppose. Closing appointments and also in the Yendi constituency where a priest, on behalf of Alhbadan Abdul-Fataw, filed to challenge the fact that he is the only candidate.
The unopposed members in the Savannah region are Mr. John Abdulai Jinapor, Member of Parliament for Yapei-Kusawgu, Mr. Andrew Dari Chiwitey, Mr. Sawla-Tuna-Kalba and Mr. Alhaji Sulemana Yussif, from the riding of Bole-Bamboi.
Constituencies with the largest number of aspirants
The Nanton constituency in the North Region, which has a total of seven people to challenge the parliamentary primaries that the NDC lost in the 2016 New Patriotic Party (NPP) general election, has the highest number of aspirants followed by Tolon and Savelugu. constituencies that each have six aspirants.
Five people also applied to attend the parliamentary primaries in the southern Salaga constituency in the Savannah region, where the NDC lost the seat of the ruling NPP in the 2016 elections.
Eight people also applied to attend primary school in the Bunkprugu constituency in the Northeast region.
Sitting MPs who are challenged
The incumbent sitting members of the Northern Region are Mr. Alhbadan Sayibe Suhuyini, Member of Parliament for Tamale North; Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, MP for Sagnarigu; Ras Mubarak, MP Kumbungu; Alhaji Alhbadan Umar, MP for Zabzugu and Mohammed Aziz, MP for Mion.
For the Savannah region, the incumbent members in the running are Adam Mutawakilu, MP for Damongo; Shaibu Mahama, MP for Daboya-Mankragu, and Alhaji Alhbadan Mumui, MP for Salaga North
For the Northeast region, Yunyoo's current MP, Joseph Bipoba Naabu, has five more to challenge, and Alhaji Ibrahim Abdul-Rauf Tanko, outgoing Yagaba-Kubori MP, is being contested by two others.
No re-election
Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, MP for Central Tamale, is the only NDC MP not to be re-elected at the party's parliamentary primaries in the northern region.
Three people have asked him to succeed (Alhaji Fuseini) for the Tamale Central constituency.
They include Mr. Abdul Hanan Gundadow, former Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tamale, Mr. Ibrahim Murtala, former Deputy of Nanton and Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, and Alhaji Alhbadan Adam, Banker.
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