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Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter
NOMINATIONS for Highlanders elections closed yesterday with returning officer Peter Dube saying the names and number of candidates running for the vacant posts will be announced mid-morning tomorrow.
Those wishing to stand in the elections for the positions of vice-chairman and treasurer had until mid-day yesterday to submit their nomination forms at the club offices.
Fiso Siziba has already publicly declared his interest for another term as vice-chairman while treasurer Israel Moyo has decided to keep his cards close to the chest.
However, sources say Siziba may be unchallenged while Moyo will face Nkani Khoza an active participant at the club’s general meetings.
There was no last minute activity at the club offices yesterday as it was quiet the whole morning with aspiring candidates believed to have avoided last minute hassles and submitted their papers on time.
Dube, the election returning officer said he would only be in a position to divulge the names of the candidates after the electoral college sits tomorrow.
“There is not much to reveal today. What we were doing today was just collecting forms. We will come back on Monday and go through all of them and verify all the details on them to say all requirements have been met and then we can let the members, public and everyone else know that these are the actual names of candidates,” said Dube.
Candidates ought to have been Highlanders members for an uninterrupted period of 24 months, have to get their nomination forms signed by a minimum of 10 Bosso members in good standing, and are required to pay a nomination fee of US$200 to qualify as contestants in the elections.
The nomination fee is refundable if a candidate receives at least 10 percent of the total votes cast for the position they are contesting.
After the closing of the nomination process what follows is the verification process to be conducted tomorrow.
Candidates will go through the vetting procedure after fulfilling the constitutional demands to stand for elections.
According to the club constitution, the nomination and electoral review committee shall sit as a court on a set date but soon after the closure of nominations to verify and consider nominations, and candidates or their agents may be present at the verification and may be allowed to make representations in support of their nominations at the end of which the Nomination and Electoral Review Committee shall publish the list of successful candidates for any contested position.
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