{"id":109491,"date":"2015-04-19T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=109491"},"modified":"2015-04-19T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T09:15:36","slug":"retired-police-officer-to-contest-npp-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=109491","title":{"rendered":"Retired Police officer to contest NPP primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retired Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr Castro Yaw Adu Gyimah, has picked nomination forms to contest in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Nsuta-Kwamang-Beposo Constituency in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cgqebaJWb6uNKNxWmV96pqnlbvsLefe7&#8243;]Alhaji Issah Abdulai, the second Vice Chairman of the party in the constituency who disclosed this to the media said two other contestants, Mr Kwame Asafu-Adjei, the incumbent, and Mr Attah Boadu, an NPP activist in the United Kingdom(UK), had also picked their forms.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Abdulai advised the 3 contestants and their supporters to comport themselves and do a clean campaign devoid of any acrimony, since whoever becomes the choice of the electorate will need the support of others in the general elections in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He further advised the party executives to remain neutral, to ensure unity and combat-readiness for the task ahead in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>So far some known personalities have expressed interest to contest the NPP parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n<p>They include former Host of Joy FM\u2019s morning show, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/05\/ill-contest-for-mp-despite-potential-risks-oppong-nkrumah\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kojo Oppong Nkrumah<\/strong><\/a><\/span> who is vying for the Ofoase Ayeribi seat, editor of the Daily Searchlight newspaper, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/15\/ken-kuranchie-joins-npps-parliamentary-race\/#sthash.64dPSoi5.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ken Kuranchie<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, OkaiKoi North, lawyer for Nana Addo in the 2012 election petition, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/12\/npp-must-win-majority-seats-in-parliament-addison\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Philip Addison<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Korle Klottey constituency among others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr Castro Yaw Adu Gyimah, has picked nomination forms to contest in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Nsuta-Kwamang-Beposo Constituency in the Ashanti Region. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cgqebaJWb6uNKNxWmV96pqnlbvsLefe7&#8243;]Alhaji Issah Abdulai, the second Vice Chairman of the party in the constituency who disclosed this to the media said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":104609,"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-109491","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\/109491","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=109491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}