Editorial: Let’s ensure successful district level elections

Barring any hitches, Ghanaians will go to the polls on Tuesday, September 1, 2015, to elect assembly members for the various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) across the country.

Except in the Dichemso Electoral Area in the Ashanti Region, where a Kumasi High Court has placed an injunction on the elections, the district level elections (DLEs) will come off throughout the country and will also be used to elect members of the unit committees in those electoral areas.

To ensure a successful and peaceful process, the Daily Graphic would like to entreat all Ghanaian voters to show commitment to the process by going out to vote for their preferred assembly members and Unit Committee members.

As agents of development at the district and unit levels, the district assembly concept must be supported by all of us getting involved in the selection of our representatives at the local level to develop our communities.

Regrettably, voter turn