{"id":102647,"date":"2015-03-26T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=102647"},"modified":"2015-03-26T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:30:43","slug":"tamale-npp-youth-kick-against-exorbitant-parliamentary-primaries-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=102647","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8216;exorbitant&#8217; Parliamentary primaries fee &#8211; Tamale NPP Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group calling itself, Concerned New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth in Tamale is vehemently opposed to the party\u2019s filing fees for the upcoming Parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ccJPEbunQssTW9ekcslWCnbqfmmiidEt&#8221;]The party\u2019s National Executive Council (NEC) proposed <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/24\/npps-new-filing-fees-angers-party-members\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GHC10.000.00 as filing fees<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for the primaries in orphan constituencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At constituencies where there are sitting Members of Parliament, the contenders will have to cough GHC30.000.00.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This has since created uproar with some NPP members threatening to sue the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In opposition to the proposals, some irate party youth besieged the NPP Asylum Down headquarters in Accra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is against this backdrop the Concerned NPP youth in Tamale has called for a review of the filing fees.<br \/>\nThe group\u2019s Spokesperson, Yussif Danjumah described the amount involved as awful.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, winnable but poor Parliamentary aspirants especially in the Northern Region would be demoralized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suggested that the filing fees for orphan constituencies should be pegged at GHC7.000.00.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yussif Danjumah however lauded the affirmative action that only female aspirants could compete with NPP women sitting MPs during the primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NPP can boast of 10 out of 31 Parliamentary seats in the Northern Region with no single woman Parliamentarian from the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group calling itself, Concerned New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth in Tamale is vehemently opposed to the party\u2019s filing fees for the upcoming Parliamentary primaries. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ccJPEbunQssTW9ekcslWCnbqfmmiidEt&#8221;]The party\u2019s National Executive Council (NEC) proposed GHC10.000.00 as filing fees for the primaries in orphan constituencies. At constituencies where there are sitting Members of Parliament, the contenders will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":102650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-102647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}