{"id":126903,"date":"2015-06-21T15:56:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126903"},"modified":"2015-06-21T17:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T17:01:05","slug":"thomas-wuni-wins-npps-talensi-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126903","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Wuni wins NPP&#8217;s Talensi primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates in Talensi in the Upper East region have elected Thomas Duanab Wuni as their Parliamentary candidate for the July 7 By-election.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Wuni polled 182 votes while the remaining two contestants, Robert Alibo and Williams Zoogah polled 119 and 96 votes respectively.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_126829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126829\" style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AuZQjNy1X6EIh4hxI02pA_nRtCG3zSuYFHPgMvmZ5wz3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126829\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AuZQjNy1X6EIh4hxI02pA_nRtCG3zSuYFHPgMvmZ5wz3.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Alibo\" width=\"493\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AuZQjNy1X6EIh4hxI02pA_nRtCG3zSuYFHPgMvmZ5wz3.jpg 493w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AuZQjNy1X6EIh4hxI02pA_nRtCG3zSuYFHPgMvmZ5wz3-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Alibo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Announcing the results, the Talensi Electoral Commission\u2019s (EC) returning officer indicated that two ballots were rejected.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_126827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126827\" style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ApQVAsa_41NvvlBmxZztMHI0VFuGUtV-yE5oBXID6b6t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126827\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ApQVAsa_41NvvlBmxZztMHI0VFuGUtV-yE5oBXID6b6t.jpg\" alt=\"Williams Zoogah\" width=\"493\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ApQVAsa_41NvvlBmxZztMHI0VFuGUtV-yE5oBXID6b6t.jpg 493w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ApQVAsa_41NvvlBmxZztMHI0VFuGUtV-yE5oBXID6b6t-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Williams Zoogah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The EC will on July 7 organize a By-election in Talensi to elect a Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the back of the enskinment of the Talensi MP, Robert Nachineb Doameng as the Paramount chief of Talensi.<\/p>\n<p>The voting exercise took place at Tongo in the Upper East Region and\u00a0418 NPP delegates voted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Fred Awuni\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates in Talensi in the Upper East region have elected Thomas Duanab Wuni as their Parliamentary candidate for the July 7 By-election. Thomas Wuni polled 182 votes while the remaining two contestants, Robert Alibo and Williams Zoogah polled 119 and 96 votes respectively. Announcing the results, the Talensi Electoral Commission\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":126830,"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-126903","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\/126903","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=126903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}