Sentences with phrase «to canvass for votes»

She is meeting with organized women groups canvassing for votes for the NPP.

Akufo - Addo and Bawumia had done everything and expended energy and resources canvassing for votes in the religious circles, especially those identifiable as Christian and Muslim.

• The NPP will embark on house - to - house campaign under the pretext of canvassing for votes where unsuspecting registered voters would be tricked into surrendering their voter ID cards.

Mr John Mahama is currently on a 5 - day tour of the Eastern region to canvass for votes ahead of the elections.

«What we in NDC do is always talk to people to canvass for their votes rather than plan to rig the election... the people of this country have said that they want a party that's progressive and have the young at heart and also, do what's right», he stated.

Some party agents of one of the major political parties in the ongoing Anambra election were secretly canvassing for votes, distributing various gift items to the voters.

She recalled that while canvassing for votes, the need to provide jobs was clearly on the mind of the Governor, and according to her, he wasted no time in setting up the ETF Board made up of people with proven track record, as well as transferring N6.25 billion for the initiative to kick off, while the Board ensured that the process was fair and transparent with no favour as to party, religion, tribe or faith, and covered all the 57 Councils in the State.

The Conference of Islamic Organisations (CIO) has claimed that some aides of former President Goodluck Jonathan approached the body with $ 3 million so as to canvass for their votes during the presidential election but that they rejected it.

While we have been going round the State canvassing for votes from the people, they have remained in their offices boasting that they will use Federal Might to rig the election even if nobody vote for them.

«His party, PDP, is the only organization that may canvass for votes on his behalf - so long as it falls within the 90 days prior to election stipulated by the electoral Act.

I addressed my surprise and disappointment by contacting and asking questions of Jennifer Fearing, the California senior state director for the Humane Society of the United States who was in Missouri prior to the election canvassing for votes for Proposition B.

For some days, Mrs. Akufo - Addo, who has subtly joined her husband on the campaign trail for the third time, is canvassing for votes in the Greater Accra Region; her home region by going to mainly health facilities dressed in party colours.

Disqualified Presidential Candidate of the All People's Congress (APC) Dr Hassan Ayariga has begun a tour of the northern region to canvass for votes for the governing National Democratic Congress in the December

The Greater Accra Regional and constituencies executives of the women wing of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has taken the government, «Accounting to the People,» pictorial booklet known as the green book to the coastal towns of the region to canvass for votes.

She said instead of mounting billboards, her team will adopt a «room to room, house to house, market to market, church to church, Mosque to Mosque and Ghetto to Ghetto» approach to canvass for votes.

Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has dissociated himself from a purported photograph of him canvassing for votes...

With barely seven months to the polls, the NPP's campaign team led by former National Chairman, Peter Mac Manu is yet to kick start a vigorous outreach programme to canvass for votes.

Politicians in every nook of this world are seen on the streets only to canvass for votes and not begging for money.

In a release issued by the Chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Organisation, Mr Kolawole Olabisi, «the boast of the APC which had been sedentary in its approach to canvassing for votes in the State is that they would rig this election even if only one vote is cast for them.

Section 221 reads, «No association, other than a political party, shall canvass for votes for any candidate at any election or contribute to the funds of any political party or to the election expenses of any candidate at an election».