{"id":124705,"date":"2015-06-13T17:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=124705"},"modified":"2015-06-13T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:04:08","slug":"npp-primaries-22-year-old-knust-student-wins-kwabre-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=124705","title":{"rendered":"22-year-old KNUST student wins Kwabre East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22- year-old second year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has been elected the Parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Kwabre East constituency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/francisca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124742\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/francisca.jpg\" alt=\"francisca\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/francisca.jpg 540w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/francisca-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Francisca Oteng-Mensah, a law student beat incumbent Member of Parliament (MP),\u00a0Kofi Frimpong by polling 321 votes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124706\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/download3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124706\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/download3.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Kwabre East, Kofi Frimpong.\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MP for Kwabre East, Kofi Frimpong.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kofi Frimpong secured 187 votes while two other aspirants,\u00a0Lawyer Osei-Poku and K. Adjei-Sefa polled\u00a0202 and 33 votes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Frimpong has been in Parliament since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @ osamidan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22- year-old second year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has been elected the Parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Kwabre East constituency. Francisca Oteng-Mensah, a law student beat incumbent Member of Parliament (MP),\u00a0Kofi Frimpong by polling 321 votes. Kofi Frimpong secured 187 votes while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":124713,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-124705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124705","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}