{"id":105439,"date":"2015-04-06T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=105439"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:49:27","slug":"npp-primaries-effah-darteh-to-wrestle-for-berekum-west-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=105439","title":{"rendered":"NPP primaries: Effah Darteh to wrestle for Berekum West seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant, Nkrabea Effah Dartey (Rtd) has expressed interest to contest for the Berekum West seat in the party\u2019s \u00a0upcoming parliamentary primaries which has been <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/01\/npp-defers-controversial-affirmative-action-policy\/#sthash.3GgTgkOs.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">set for June 13<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SSPOIIwjMDSbiNrZlXNHlVqIO4OALJGI&#8221;]He contested in the party\u2019s presidential primaries in 2007 but but did not win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captain Effah Dartey (Rtd) who was also a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the same constituency,\u00a0lost to his opponent, Kwaku Agyeman Boateng in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has also made attempts for the NPP\u2019s General Secretary position but failed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Effah Dartey has since been silent on the political scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about his latest intention on Kumasi based Nhyira FM, Effah Dartey said he is contesting because of pressure from party faithful\u2019s and youth of the constituency saying \u201cany time I go for a funeral or any other function they tell me Nkrabea if you don\u2019t come the NPP will lose the seat to NDC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that \u201cthe youth mostly have put pressure on me and I want to contest because I don\u2019t want to let them down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, several &#8220;non-hard core&#8221; politicians have expressed interest to contest in the NPP\u2019s parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They include former Joy FMs morning show host <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/05\/ill-contest-for-mp-despite-potential-risks-oppong-nkrumah\/#sthash.yVzLRuXF.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Kojo Oppong Nkrumah<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, former Chief Marketing officer of MTN <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/30\/george-andah-to-challenge-hannah-tetteh-for-parliamentary-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Andah<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">and<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Nana Addo&#8217;s lawyer in the 2012 election petition, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/27\/i-dont-want-nana-addos-influence-at-this-stage-philip-addison\/#sthash.VlIdsxbp.vnkZg4yv.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Addison<\/a><\/strong><\/span> among others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant, Nkrabea Effah Dartey (Rtd) has expressed interest to contest for the Berekum West seat in the party\u2019s \u00a0upcoming parliamentary primaries which has been set for June 13. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SSPOIIwjMDSbiNrZlXNHlVqIO4OALJGI&#8221;]He contested in the party\u2019s presidential primaries in 2007 but but did not win. Captain Effah Dartey (Rtd) who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":105443,"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":[2,5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-105439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105439","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=105439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}