NDC Filing Fee: Council of Elders meets Flagbearer Aspirants

Council of Elders of the largest opposition party National Democratic Congress(NDC) are in a crucial meeting with the flagbearership aspirants today.

The purpose of the meeting according to sources is to resolve the current impasse the flagbearer aspirants and the party’s leadership.

The flagbearer aspirants kicked against the party’s GH¢ 400,000 filing fee and accused the party’s leadership of lending their support for one of the candidates.

The Functional Executive Committee of the Party FEC, in a press release on Wednesday subsequently announced the reviewed guidelines for the presidential primaries.

Aside the downward review of the filing fee, the deadline for picking of nomination forms, which elapsed on Tuesday, December 4 has been extended to December 8, to allow for persons who could not pick forms more time to do so.

The Council also pushed for the primaries to be held on January 26, instead of the initial January 19, 2019 date.

As at the close of the deadline on Tuesday evening, only four of the aspirants had picked their nomination forms in their bid to lead the party into the 2020 election, leaving eight others including Dr Spio Garbrah, Kojo Bonsu and Alban Bagbin vowing not to participate in the process arguing it will amount to an illegality.