All male flag bearer aspirants of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are expected to pay GHS 400,000 as filing fee while female flag bearer aspirants as well as persons with disability aspiring to the same position, are to pay GHS200,000.
The nomination forms for the flag bearer slot is going for GHS20,000.
Also, the parliamentary aspirants are expected to pay GHS 20,000 as filing fees.
Female parliamentary aspirants will pay half of that.
So far, twelve people including former president John Dramani Mahama have indicated their readiness to run for the flag bearer slot of the party in the presidential primaries scheduled for 19 January 2019.
The party took the decision at a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Thursday, 29 November at the party’s headquarters in Accra.
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Name: Owura All that NDC leadership is saying is that, since you believe you have what it takes to lead the party to victory in 2020, then you should have at least 1000 people who will be willing to support your candidature with at least 420 Ghana Cedis to file for you. That mobilization will be an indication that you will be able to mobilize resources for an effective campaign when you win the slot. Secondly, since each aspirant is confident of winning the primaries, none should complain believing that the other contestants will eventually contribute totgekr campaigns through the filing fees- Any aspirant who complains about the filing fees should be deemed a time-waster who is simply using the party to gain popularity. Any aspirant who believes they can win over 5,000,000 Ghanaians to become President shouldn’t have a problem mobilizing resources from 1000 people to file. I call on all branch executives to open their eyes and ears wide to identify all those who will complain. That’s an obvious indication that they are there for comic relief. Meanwhile NPP paid 500,000 Ghana Cedis in 2015 for a similar exercise so I don’t even understand why NDC is charging only 400,000. Maybe because the economy was better then than now-
Apart from the outrageous level of the fees, does it not amount to gender discrimination by charging different fees for men and women? This party is a joke
Eii! NDC! Ghana aye den mpo ni ena moregye Ghc400,000 filing fee? This one dee ebi one man show for JDM because he a large chunk of the Create Loot and Share booty. Ghanafo! let us be wide awake because if we make a mistake and vote for JDM again, yebewu because he will make sure he re-coup the 400k filing fee