PPP opens nominations

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has opened nominations for the election of presidential and parliamentary candidates for all the 230 constituencies in the country.

In an a press statement issued by its interim secretary, Kofi Asamoah, the party advised its regional and constituency executives to open nomination and ensure that all parliamentary candidates are duly elected by Friday, 30th March, 2012.

According to the statement, forms to contest a presidential position within the party could be obtained at a non-refundable fee of GH¢500.00 latest by Thursday, February, 16, 2012.

“All Presidential Aspirants will be required to pay a non-refundable filing fee of GH¢25, 000.00. (twenty-five thousand Ghana cedis),” it stated.

The statement also called on all interested parliamentary aspirants to obtain a nomination form from the regional secretariat of the PPP for a non-refundable fee of GH¢100.00.

Male aspirants, the statement noted, would be required to pay a non-refundable filing fee of GH¢1, 000.00 while female aspirants and male aspirants below the age of 35 years would pay GH¢500.00 as filing fees.

The statement also affirmed the PPP’s commitment to ensuring that 20% of parliamentary candidates are women.

STORY: KWAKU NTI