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The New Patriotic Party has penciled 31st August 2014 as the date for the Special Delegates Congress to elect the first five of the seven persons who have filed to contest the Presidential Primaries. The Special Congress will be held at Regional Centres in all the ten Regions of Ghana. The Party Headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra will also be designated as a Polling Center for some categories of voters. This decision was taken at the Party�s National Council Meeting held at Alisa Hotel on Wednesday, 16th July 2014. The Council has also scheduled 18th October for the Presidential Primaries to be held in all the 275 constituencies simultaneously. Further guidelines will be communicated in due course. The five Standing Committees of the National Council were duly constituted. They are Finance, Organisational, Constitutional, Research and Disciplinary Committees. In addition, the Party�s Vetting Committees was put in place. Regional Officers updated the Council on the state of the Party�s preparedness on the upcoming registration exercise. Furthermore, Party Officers, MPs and key stakeholders of the Party are requested to take the upcoming voter registration exercise seriously and to ensure that most of our members and supporters who have attained the voting age to patronise registration exercise. Signed�� Kwabena Agyei Agyepong (General Secretary)