It is likely the district level elections would be held in October this year as the Local Government and Rural Development Ministry lays a Constitutional Instrument (CI 89) in Parliament on Friday.

The district level elections initially planned for March 3 were declared null and void by the Supreme Court because the Electoral Commission failed to follow due legal process.

The CI 89 which would guide the district level elections would have to wait till July before it can travel through the mandatory 21 sitting days maturation period before it can be passed into law.

Joy News’ parliamentary correspondent Elton John Brobbey said the CI has been referred to Parliament’s Subsidiary Legislation Committee.

The bill was laid in Parliament by Lands and Natural Resources Minister Nii Osah Mills on behalf of the Local Government Ministry – the ministry currently has no substantive minister.

Chairman of Parliament’s Subsidiary Legislation Committee O.B. Amoah told Joy News the committee will invite the Electoral Commission, Attorney General’s Department and other stakeholders to “speak to the CI”.

Draft of the instrument is mostly fashioned around CI75 which deals with elections regulations especially for parliamentary and presidential elections, he hinted.

Mr. Amoah said committee members will study the constitutional instrument and submit a report to the entire House to either reject or accept and passed CI 89 into a law.

Elton however noted that the House will rise on Thursday 26^th March and returned in the third week of May.

“This means that from next week the countdown (for the 21 days maturation) will stop until the house till the third week of May for the continuation of the 21-day maturation period, and we are looking at somewhere at the end of June,” he said.

According to the Electoral Commission, it will need additional two months to prepare for the elections, Elton gathered.

“So put together you are looking at the district level elections taking place somewhere in august or October,” Elton analysed.