Forty-seven to contest 17 seats in Sekondi

Forty-seven people have collected nomination forms from the Electoral Commission to contest the district level elections in the Sekondi Sub-Metropolitan area. Mr John Kwaw, Electoral Officer for Sekondi Sub-Metropolitan area, said the candidates would contest the elections in 17 electoral areas in the sub-metropolitan area.

Over 1,000 people have also collected nomination forms to stand for the unit committee elections in 63 units in the sub-metropolis. Each unit committee is to be made up of 10 elected members and five government appointees. Mr Kwaw said the candidates for unit committees would, therefore, be declared unopposed where only 10 people file nomination.

He said the filing of nominations for the district level and unit committee elections would be done at designated electoral area centres instead of district offices of the EC. This is to make it easy for the candidates to present their nominations, Mr Kwaw said.