The leaders of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will today, Monday, June 8, release the names of all persons who passed the vetting.
This means, these individuals have been given the green light to contest the party’s June 20 parliamentary primaries.
This follows a decision taken on them by the National Executive Committee (NEC) at its last meeting on Thursday.
The guidelines and modalities of the primaries will also be announced today.
The party on April 14, 2020, suspended its planned April 25, 2020, parliamentary primaries indefinitely in accordance with the President’s directive to impose a ban on public gatherings in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in Ghana.
Campaigns of many aspiring members had to be suspended due to this directive from the president.
But with the easing of some of the COVID-19 induced restrictions, some aspirants have resumed some level of campaign.
NPP seeks to use the primaries to elect parliamentary candidates in constituencies where it has sitting Members of Parliament, ahead of the 2020 general elections.
The June 20 primaries will be held in 168 constituencies across the country.
