A total of 306 candidates are to contest the district assembly and unit committees’ elections in the Sekyere Central slated for December 28, 2010. Mr Raymond Nartey, the District Electoral Officer, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Nsuta that 84 of the candidates comprising 75 males and seven females would contest for the assembly poll in the 27 electoral areas. He said 222 made up of 194 men and 28 women are contesting to join the unit committees. Mr Nartey said three of the electoral areas, Hemame, Awanya and Nkwagrim had no one contesting for the unit committee election. He said campaign platform mounted by the Electoral Commission (EC) for the candidates in the district officially ended on Sunday December 19, 2010. The candidates, however, have the right to do their own house-to-house campaign.Source: GNA