ALL SET FOR MUSIGA ELECTIONS ON JAN 12

All is set for the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) to hold its national and regional elections after over two years of litigation.

This follows various interventions by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and the decision of the court to ask the litigants to resolve the matters using the Union’s internal mechanisms.

Next year’s elections is novel in that this is the first time that all paid up members of the Union. Previously, MUSIGA elections involved an electoral college selected from the branches.

This was changed after the last congress of the Union in 2015 Koforidua when Bice Osei Kuffour was reelected to a second term.

Since then, the Union’s constitution has been amended thereby allowing for all paid up members to be eligible to vote in the elections.

According to the chairman of the National Election Committee, Peter Marfo, the committee has completed its vetting of candidates at both the national and regional levels.

He noted that, “Once the vetting has been done, all is set for the candidates to campaign and prepare for the elections on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. We are prepared at both the national and regional levels.”

Over one hundred and four (104) candidates are contesting for the seventy-seven (77) positions nationwide. Of this number, eleven (11) candidates are contesting for the seven positions are the national level.

The contestants are for President – Bessa Simons, Ras Caleb Appiah-Levi and Deborah Freeman; General Secretary – Samuel Kofi Agyemang and Francis Derman Dogbatsey; 1st Vice-President – Rev Dr. Thomas Yawson; 2nd Vice-President – Abena Ruthy; Treasurer – Edward Edusa Eyison; Organizer – Nii Adu Chizzy Wailer; Welfare Officer – Gifty Oppong Ghansah.

The elections will be supervised by the Electoral Commission of Ghana and both the regional and national elections will take place on the same day in all the regional capitals of the old ten regions.

The MUSIGA elections is expected to herald the dawn of a new era for the Union.