The opposition New Patriotic Party and the Convention People's Party say the ongoing parliamentary primaries by the NDC are preemptive of Parliament’s decision on the creation of new constituencies. The Constitutional Instrument establishing the new constituencies was withdrawn and replaced with an amended one, due to some errors. It will require 21 sitting days to mature after which the E.C can go ahead and create the new constituencies. But the NDC is going ahead with the election of its parliamentary candidates for the 45 yet-to-be-legalized constituencies. NPP General Secretary Kodwo Owusu-Afriyie said it was illegal for the Electoral Commission to help the NDC to conduct the primaries. “As far as we are concerned, there are no new constituencies available anywhere in Ghana. It is an intent by the E.C to create 45 new constituencies. What the NDC is doing is perhaps to preempt the outcome of the process that has been initiated by the laying of the document before the committee. “For us we think that we need to interrogate all these processes and issues before we rush into getting people to contest." He questioned the basis on which the E.C was supervising the conduct of the primaries across the country on behalf of the NDC. The CPP’s Communications Director, Nii Armah Akomfrah said although the new constituencies provide them with opportunities, they will not preempt Parliament’s decision. “We have opportunities in about four regions with these new constituencies. It hasn’t gone through the Parliamentary process yet. So currently those constituencies do not exist. It is a little bit presumptuous for the NDC to seek to hold primaries for constituencies that do not exist,” he said. The Progressive People’s Party says it has opened nominations but will wait until the CI is approved by parliament. “What we have sought to do is to let nomination open until the final maturation of the CI 73…Meanwhile we have aggressively been campaigning in the constituencies,” the National Secretary of the PPP, Kofi Asamoah-Siaw told Joy News. The PNC however says it will go ahead with the election of its candidates for the constituencies by 15 September.