FIVE people in the Ashanti Region, including a 75-year-old renowned industrialist, Mr Akenten Appiah-Minkah, are contesting for the slot of a regional representative to the Council of State.
The Deputy Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) in the Ashanti Region, Mr Isaac Owusu, said 10 people picked up nomination forms, but at the close of nominations on January 27, 2009, only five of the candidates had duly filed and returned their forms to the EC.
The rest of the candidates were Rev. George Antwi, 63, Senior Pastor of the Living Hope Baptist Church at Odum, Kumasi; Nana Asiama Poku Afrifa, 71, a traditional ruler and farmer from Toase; Mr Joseph Alexander Sarkodie Tuffuor, 77, Member of Parliament for Subin Constituency in 1992, who is a general contractor and farmer, and Mr Kwame Gyawu-Kyem, 82, a former Editor of the Ghanaian Times and Member of Parliament (MP) for Atwima in 1992.
Speaking on the rules of the game, Mr Owusu said the Constitutional Instrument on the regional representation on the Council of State allows a person from a particular region to stand for election as a member of the Council of State.
He quoted the instrument, saying a non-Ghanaian was not qualified to be elected as a representative to the council.
"The person must be a registered voter, resident in or hail from the region from which he seeks representation."
Again, he explained that a candidate must be someone who had not been disqualified to stand for national elections or disqualified to hold or act in any public office.
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