The New Patriotic Party’s candidate cum District Chief Executive for Daffiama Bussia Issa (DBI) constituency of the Upper West Region Hon Nadi Imoro Sanda has filed his nomination at the Electoral Commission office in Issa on October 8, 2020.
The DCE for DBI vowed to unseat the incumbent Member of Parliament Hon Dr Sabastian Saadaari. He said his work will speak for him at the polls and the ‘non-performing Member of Parliament’ will be voted out as the evidence is clear. Mr Imoro Sanda added that the campaign leading up to the election would be based entirely on evidence; dubbing it the ‘evidence based campaign’.
According to Hon Nadi Imoro Sanda, unlike the sitting MP, he will declare to the people the amounts that are supposed to go to the people and the people will take decisions on how it will be spent to benefit the people of the Daffiama Bussia Issa constituency.
The EC on September 14, 2020 announced the opening of nominations for the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections effective Monday, October 5, to Friday, October 9, for all political parties and qualified independent candidates who wish to contest. The filing fees for presidential nominations were pegged at GH₵100,000.00 and parliamentary candidate of GH₵10,000.00 respectively.
Due to COVID-19 protocols, however, the Commission made available the nomination forms on its website to all political parties as well as independent candidates.