Tamale Metro Assembly election contest heats up

Over 300 aspirants have filed their nominations with the Electoral Commission to contest the impending District Assembly and Unit Committee elections in the Tamale Metropolitan Area.

Their posters are visibly displayed on the walls of public toilets, households, school buildings, trees and at various market squares.

Ten aspirants have filed for the Dohin-Naayili electoral area whilst twelve aspirants filed for the Bilpela electoral area.

The Kukuo electoral area has four aspirants contesting; Danjumah Lukman Sayibu, Abdulai Ziblim Hafiz, Adam Awal and Mohammed Laminu Awal.

The 28-year old Danjumah Lukman Sayibu told Citi News he was motivated by the youth of Kukuo to join the contest.

“If you go to the grassroot everybody thinks I can do the job, some people came to me personally and said I should come out and contest: the youth, the elderly, the chiefs and the Imams are behind me and I won’t put them in shame.”

He added, “I have seen that development of the Kukuo area is very down: since we were young growing up they always chose the elderly that they thought could do the work and this is the time for we the youth to come on board.”

All the aspirants have intensified their campaigning in their various electoral areas.

Some residents of the Tamale Metropolitan area in a Citi News interview expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of their representatives at the assembly level.

Some argued that the assembly members have over the years failed to address their development challenges and vowed to boycott the upcoming elections District Assembly and Unit Committee elections.

The Assembly, currently headed by Abdul Hanan Gundado as the Metropolitan Chief Executive has 62 members.

Forty two are elected assembly members and 18 are government appointees.

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/Citifmonline.com/Ghana