The Northern Regional Secretariat of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) says all is set for the Parliamentary primaries scheduled for Saturday June, 13, 2015.<\/p>\n
The Electoral College comprises all constituency executives, the five-member council of elders, patrons, polling station executives and the electoral coordinators.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”m9TnX1wjuEuwm9lyNwoozsz5KzjtRx51″]A total of 83 aspirants are in the race and only six are female contesting the Tamale North, Damongo, Bole and Nalerigu constituencies.<\/p>\n
The NPP can boast of 10 incumbent Members of Parliament in the Northern Region who are seeking reelection.
\nSeven of them including Deputy Minority leader and also the MP for Bimbila, Hon. Dominick Nitiwul and the Yendi MP, Hon. Alhaji Mohammed Habib Tijani are going unopposed.<\/p>\n
The NPP Northern Regional Communications Director, Mohammed Abdul Kudus told Citi News the party expects trouble free primaries.<\/p>\n
He said there will be police personnel at the designated polling stations to regulate the conduct of people.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the rank and file of the NPP I can only wish that they repeat the very conduct that is known of them: we cannot guarantee a hundred percent incident free but I can assure that ninety nine percent of the polls will be incident free.\u201d
\nMohammed Abdul Kudus is optimistic that the NPP will come out more united.<\/p>\n
The aspirants have intensified their campaigns ahead of the impending primaries.<\/p>\n
One of the aspirants in the Tamale Central constituency, Barhama Anyass Baba Repairer commended the delegates for assuring him of their unflinching support.<\/p>\n
He however kicked against some delegates\u2019 decision to openly declare their support for him on air ahead of the polls.
\nHe said such a move had the tendency of creating disunity in the party after the primaries.<\/p>\n
Barhama Anyass Baba Repairer however appealed to the delegates to endorse his candidature to enable him wrestle the seat from Hon. Inusah Fuseini in 2016.<\/p>\n
At the 2012 general elections, the NPP succeeded in maximizing its Parliamentary seats in the region from three to 10.<\/p>\n
The party is targeting 17 out of the 31 seats come the 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n
Below is a list of the candidates. 2. SAWLA TUUNA \u2013 KALBA<\/strong> 3. NALERIGU GAMBAGA<\/strong> 4. BOLE \u2013 BAMBOI<\/strong> 5. MION<\/strong> 6. SAGNARIGU<\/strong> 7. TAMALE NORTH<\/strong> 10. KARAGA<\/strong> 11. NANTON<\/strong> 12. TATALE SANGUIN<\/strong> 13. YAPEI \u2013 KUSAWGU<\/strong> 14. YUNYOO<\/strong> 15. ZABZUGU<\/strong> 16. GUSHEIGU<\/strong> 17. DABOYA MANKARAGO<\/strong> 18. SAVELUGU<\/strong> 19. WULENSI<\/strong> 20. DAMONGO<\/strong> 21. SABOBA<\/strong> 22. KUMBUNGU<\/strong> 23. SALAGA NORTH<\/strong> 24. SALAGA SOUTH<\/strong> UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES<\/strong> 26. KPANDAI<\/strong> 27. CHEREPONI<\/strong> 28. WALEWALE<\/strong> 29. YAGBA KUBORI<\/strong> 30. BIMBILA<\/strong> 31. BUNKPRUGU<\/strong> – The Northern Regional Secretariat of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) says all is set for the Parliamentary primaries scheduled for Saturday June, 13, 2015. The Electoral College comprises all constituency executives, the five-member council of elders, patrons, polling station executives and the electoral coordinators. [contextly_sidebar id=”m9TnX1wjuEuwm9lyNwoozsz5KzjtRx51″]A total of 83 aspirants are in the race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":104113,"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-123899","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\/123899","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=123899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. TOLON<\/strong>
\n– WAHAB SUHIYINI WUMBEI
\n– ALHASSAN YAKUBU TALI<\/p>\n
\n– AWUSI NATOMA MAHAMA
\n– JAMES KIPO SUNYEHZI
\n– ALBERT OBKARA WOUR<\/p>\n
\n– HAJIA ALIMA MAHAMA
\n– MESUNA SUOLIHU
\n– NASIGRI MOHAMMADU
\n– PETER WUNI<\/p>\n
\n– HAJIA SALAMATU FOGOR
\n– YOURI JOHN TREANCHARD DONENGURI
\n– ALELE VERONICA HENING<\/p>\n
\n– DAMBA ABDUL \u2013 RAUF
\n– ALHAJI BABA YAKUBU MOHAMMED
\n– MOHAMMED HASHIM ABDALLAH<\/p>\n
\n– IDDRISU HABIB
\n– SHEIKH YAKUBU ABDUL KARIM
\n– ALHAJI ALHASSAN ABDUL \u2013 WAHAB<\/p>\n
\n– SAFURA FUSEINI
\n– HAJ KULSUMI MOHAMMED
\n8. TAMALE SOUTH<\/strong>
\n– YAKUBU YUSIF
\n– ABDULAI SHAMSUDEEN PEGU
\n9. TAMALE CENTRAL<\/strong>
\n– SUMAILA IDDRISU
\n– ISMAEL YAHUZA
\n– IBRAHIM ANYASS IMORO
\n– ABASS ZAKARIA
\n– MOHAMMED YUSSIF<\/p>\n
\n– IBRAHIM KALEEM
\n– PRINCE ABDULAI FO KAMIL
\n– BABA WAHAB
\n– SULEMANA IBN SAEED
\n– MUFTY MOHAMMED
\n– BASHARA SHARAWI YILFA<\/p>\n
\n– ALHAJI MOHAMMED HARDI TUFEIRU
\n– YAHAYA ABDUL \u2013 RAHMAN<\/p>\n
\n– HON JAMES CECIL YANWUBE
\n– THOMAS NBOMBA
\n– KUNBUNG OMEGA
\n– JACOB NASAIPIN<\/p>\n
\n– ALHAJI YAKUBU ZAKARIA
\n– FARUK ALHASSAN
\n– SAALIS YAKUBU ATCHILO<\/p>\n
\n– LIWAAL OSCAR
\n– ALHASSAN JOHN KUREKU<\/p>\n
\n– ISAAC NAKOJA
\n– JABAAH JOHN BENNAM<\/p>\n
\n– JACOB B. NMAYI
\n– ZIBLIM IDDI
\n– MOHAMMED SADIQ
\n– YAKUBU ABDULAI<\/p>\n
\n– TIKA SAMUEL YEYU
\n– SAAKA DANLADI<\/p>\n
\n– RAMIDAM MURTALA MOHAMMED
\n– MOHAMMED ABDUL SAMED GUNU
\n– ALIYU ISSAHAKU GBANBEGU
\n– MOHAMMED HAFIZ<\/p>\n
\n– ABDULAI HARUNA
\n– WUMBEI ABDULAI
\n– THOMAS DONKOR OGAJAH
\n– SHIRAZ Y. ANASS
\n– MAMUNDE S. BARNABAS
\n– ALHASSAN MESUNA<\/p>\n
\n– ALBERT KASSIM DIWURA
\n– SAID MUHAZU JABREL
\n– JANET JAMBIA ALHASSAN<\/p>\n
\n– ABRAHAM BINAPADAM JAWOL
\n– SAMPSON YAJABRUM
\n– CHARLES BINIPOM BINTIN<\/p>\n
\n– MARWAN FAROUK
\n– ABDULAI MOHAMMED SAANI
\n– MUTARU IDDRISU<\/p>\n
\n– ALHAJI ALHASSAN ABILA
\n– ADAM MOHAMMED KAMAL-DEEN<\/p>\n
\n– SALIFU ADAM BRAIMAH
\n– SEIDU JASPER
\n– SULEMANA MOHAMMED RASHID
\n– AMADU MUSAH ABUDU<\/p>\n
\n25. YENDI<\/strong>
\nHON. ALHAJI MOHAMMED HABIB TIJANI<\/p>\n
\nLIKPALIMOR KWAJO TAWIAH<\/p>\n
\nHON. SAMUEL ABDULAI JABANYITE<\/p>\n
\nDR. SAAGRE BAMBANGI<\/p>\n
\nHON. MUSTAPHA USSIF<\/p>\n
\nHON. DOMINIC NITIWUL<\/p>\n
\nHON. SOLOMON BOA<\/p>\n
\nBy: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"