Persons seeking to become Ghana’s president are to pay a whooping GH¢50,000 as nomination fee to be able to contest in this year’s presidential elections, which takes place on December 7.
The figure is 500 per cent from the GH¢10,000 paid by presidential candidates in the 2012 elections.
Parliamentary candidates are also to pay GH¢10,000 as against the GH¢1,000 paid in the last elections. The new figure is a 1,000 percent increment from the previous amount.
Both presidential and parliamentary candidates are to pick their nomination forms from the Electoral Commission on Tuesday, September 13 and submit same between September 29 and 30, 2016.
Sources within the ongoing Inter Party Advisory Committee [IPAC] at the Electoral Commission’s office in Accra Thursday say the smaller parties led by leader of the Democratic People’s Party, Thomas Ward Brew and the United Front Party are objecting to the amount as being astronomical.
Representatives of the Great Consolidated Popular Party have stormed out of the meeting to register their disapproval of the amount. The parties say they will petition the EC over the matter.
Credit: 3news.com
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