Fifi Kwetey, three other NDC Volta deputies do not choose forms for primary

Sunday, July 14, 2019 Policy

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-07-14

Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, a former deputy finance minister and deputy of Ketu South, has failed to choose candidacy forms to challenge the party's primary parliamentarians.

The others are Richard Quashigah, MP for Keta, Clement Kofi Humado, MP for Anlo, and Bernice Adiku Heloo, MP for Hohoe.

James Gunu, NDC regional secretary for the Volta, confirmed this statement. A total of 15 women out of 74 chose application forms at the close of nominations on Friday, July 12, to run for various parliamentary seats in the region.

He added that Charles Agbeve, MP for Agortime-Ziope, was not going to oppose the competition, as he was the only candidate to choose an application form to participate in the closing of applications.

He added that the Functional Executive Committee (FEC), in consultation with the Secretary General, had ordered that the process of selecting parliamentary primaries in the Hohoe constituency be allowed to continue with immediate effect.

The regional secretary said the date was postponed until Tuesday, July 16, 2019 to eligible party members who wanted to challenge the parliamentary primaries in the Hohoe constituency in order to choose nomination forms.

Gunu said the initial schedule for holding parliamentary primaries remained unchanged and party leaders in the region were committed to creating a level playing field for all aspirants for free, fair, credible and transparent primaries.

Fifi Kwetey won the Ketu South headquarters in 2012 and retained it in 2016 for a second four-year term.

We do not understand why he did not choose the forms for the next competition.

The parliamentary primaries of the NDC are scheduled for August 24, 2019.

The party opened the candidatures from July 10 to 12 for the primaries.

The submission of the application forms is scheduled for 18 and 19 July.

The price of the forms was 2000 GH ¢, the filing fee being set at 35 000 GH for all applicants, with the exception of women and persons with disabilities, who had to pay 17 500 GH.