The National Council of the NPP has outlined rules and regulations for the upcoming Electoral Area Coordinators Elections.
There shall be constituted, a Polling Station and Electoral Area Elections Committee to oversee the organization of the Electoral Area Coordinators Elections in each Constituency.
Ahenkorah Odura Mary 
The Electoral Area Elections shall be held from March 18 to March 20, 2022.
There shall be constituted, a Polling Station and Electoral Area Elections Committee to oversee the organization of the Electoral Area Coordinators Elections in each Constituency.
The Polling Station and Electoral Area Elections Committee shall be constituted as follows:
- a) One Regional Representative appointed by the Regional Executive Committee who shall be the Chair;
- b) The Constituency Chairman;
- c) The Constituency Secretary who shall be the Secretary to the committee
- d) The Constituency Research and Elections officer;
- e) The Constituency Council of Elders Chairman or his Representative
- f) The Constituency Council of Patrons Chairman or his Representative
- g) The Constituency I.T Officer
- h) The Member of Parliament or his Representative
- i) An elderly woman appointed by the Constituency Executive Committee
For the avoidance of doubt, the Polling Station and Electoral Area Elections Committee that supervised the just ended Polling Station elections held from 19th February to 5th March 2022, shall be the same Committee that shall supervise the conduct of the Electoral Area Coordinators Elections, except the few places where the Party had legitimate cause to change some members of the Committee, particularly the chairpersons.
Again, the Committee shall be responsible for the supervision and conduct of the Electoral Area elections across the Constituency within the scheduled dates Friday, 18th March to Sunday, 20th March 2022, and at a Venue to be determined by the Committee.
No member of the Polling Station and Electoral Area Elections Committee shall be eligible to contest in the Electoral Area Coordinators Elections.
They added that a polling station executive who seeks to contest for the position of Electoral Area Coordinator shall first resign from his or her position.
Meanwhile, Nomination Forms shall be acquired from the Electoral Area Elections Committee for free.
He further added that upon submission of completed Nomination Forms to the elections committee, an Applicant shall be required to pay to the Committee, a filing fee of GHc50.00.
Nomination Forms can also be downloaded from the Party’s website via the link: newpatrioticparty.org/npp-form, as well as all the official social media accounts of the Party, for free.
However, upon submission of completed Nomination Forms to the elections committee, the prospective aspirant shall pay a filing fee of GHc50.
No prospective aspirant shall be denied the opportunity to submit his/her completed Nomination Form.
A prospective aspirant shall be a known and active member of the Party in the Electoral Area he/she seeks to contest.
An Aspirant shall be nominated by one (1) person and seconded by three (3) registered members of the Party, all of whom shall be in good standing and Party members at that particular Electoral Area.
Three (3) Passport-sized photographs shall accompany each Application Form.
As provided for in Article 5(4) of the Party Constitution, persons who are qualified to vote in the Electoral Area Elections shall be the respective Polling Station executives within the Electoral Area as well as the current Electoral Area Coordinator.
For identification purposes, voters shall use their Party Membership Identity (ID) Card, but where the same is unavailable, National Voters ID will be admitted for voting.
The Constituency IT Officer, who is a member of the Committee, shall, under the supervision of the other Committee members, key in the details of all the elected Electoral Area Coordinators, into an electronic system that the Party has developed and made available to the various Constituencies.
The details of all the elected Electoral Area Coordinators entered into the system shall be electronically transmitted to the IT Directorate of the National Secretariat.
The Constituency IT Officer who effected the data entries, shall print a hardcopy of the entries and submit same to the Polling Station Executives and Electoral Area Elections Committee, for the necessary verification.
A hardcopy of the verified data entries shall be lodged with the Regional Secretariat by the Constituency Secretary and Chairman of the Committee, for onward submission to National Secretariat.
All the data entries and the pasting of photographs of elected Electoral Area Coordinators shall take place at a designated Constituency Collation Centre to be decided by the Polling Station and Electoral Area Elections Committee.
Meanwhile, opening and closing of Nominations start on Monday 14th to Tuesday 15th March 2022, Vetting of Aspirant also begins on Wednesday, 16th March 2022 Appeals, and if any commence on Thursday, 17th March 2022 Election of Electoral Area Coordinator 18th to 20th March 2022.
Prospective aspirants who feel aggrieved at any point in the process must exhaust all available internal dispute resolution mechanisms by Article 4 of the Party’s Constitution and the decision of the National Executive (NEC) shall be final.
The Party wishes to appeal, first of all, to the various Electoral Area Elections Committees to ensure a level playing field for all members interested in the Electoral Area Elections.
“They should rise to the occasion and vindicate the confidence that has been reposed in them by adhering strictly to these express rules and regulations which are meant to ensure the smooth rollout of the Electoral Area Coordinators elections”, he urged.
Finally, the Party, while commending its grassroots for showing great enthusiasm in the polling station elections, wishes to appeal to those aggrieved in the course of the exercise, to use the laid down time-tested grievance procedures of the Party to seek redress.
“This is the only Party we have, and we owe it to our forebears and our conscience to protect and defend the good name of the Party at all times”, he assured
“It is the only way we can show that we are loyal and patriotic members of this oldest political tradition in Ghana and West Africa”, he said
