BAYOR PICKS UP NOMINATION FORMS

By: Sandra Dufie Manu

Yeldidong Bayor, right, with running mate Wisdom Agodja
picked nomination forms on Friday evening. Photograph by
Joscelyne Ahable

 Raymond Yeldidong Bayor, aspiring SRC President, on Friday picked up his nomination form to officially step into the race to contest for the SRC Presidency, assuring he would address the numerous challenges of the Institute.

Bayor, who could go unchallenged and is widely tipped to win the May SRC elections, declared the contest as a cakewalk should any aspirant step into the race at the eleventh hour.

The affable gentleman becomes the first aspirant to pick nomination forms five days after it was opened.

He presented a cheque worth GH¢250 to EC chair David Banamini.

Speaking at the SRC Office where he was accompanied by his running mate, Wisdom Agodja, and other leading members of his campaign team, the confident-looking Bayor believes his great vision for the Institute will earn him the mandate of the students.

He also lamented the numerous issues that face students of the Institute and promised to fix them when voted into office.

"We have so many issues that we have to address in this school, we have a number of problems. We need to examine our Exam Time Table, we need to examine our membership at council meeting, we have only one slot and ideally would need three I don't think that is fair." He told our reporter Sandra Dufie Manu.

Yeldidong signing his nominations

The outspoken L300 student stressed that student leadership must take a new trend with people of delivering coming into the fray.

"We are more than a thousand, so there should be a fair representation at the council level so they can fairly deal with problems of students. It's not fair to sandwich the SRC President in leaders who are not capable, but people who are knowledgeable and they can equally work together and even more knowledgeable than the SRC President." He added.

It is yet to be known if any aspirant will come into the fray to contest for the slot.

However, it is expected that Bayor will enjoy a landslide victory come May.

Other aspirants are expected to whisk away nomination forms on Monday morning.

Godfred Tawiah Gogo, aspirant for the General Secretary slot, will pick nomination forms on Monday alongside Isaac Kofi Batini and Enock Gyan all of L300.

 Isaac Kofi Batini is eyeing the SRC Financial Secretary slot while the vocal Enock Gyan will contest for External Affairs Commissioner.

Nominations will close next week.