{"id":128951,"date":"2015-06-27T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=128951"},"modified":"2015-06-27T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T18:01:36","slug":"npp-primaries-teacher-defeats-former-deputy-minority-chief-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=128951","title":{"rendered":"NPP primaries: Teacher defeats former Deputy Minority Chief Whip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Deputy Minority Chief Whip and incumbent Member of Parliament for the Upper Denkyira West, Benjamin Kofi Ayeh has been defeated in the New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;dA5LLYIwTNWOw1bPnQSvSA85b3mLsxm9&#8243;]He lost to Mr Samuel Nsonwa Gyan, a teacher and a businessman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nsonwa is also the current Presiding Member for the Upper Denkyira West District Assembly in the Central Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benjamin Ayeh polled 115 while Samuel Nsonwa won the majority \u00a0with 220 votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In all 335 delegates out of 337 voted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Upper Denkyira West was among 30 other constituencies which could not vote in the NPP\u2019s June 13 primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was because there were issues with some of the candidates contesting in those constituencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, only 9 constituencies out of the 30 were cleared to hold their primaries today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another development, one of the constituencies in the Western Region, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/27\/npp-primaries-sefwi-akontombra-election-suspended-again\/#sthash.dlKLEH22.dpbs\"><strong>Sefwi Akontombra<\/strong><\/a><\/span> which was also cleared for the election could not organize it because of an impending court case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Akwasi Koranteng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Deputy Minority Chief Whip and incumbent Member of Parliament for the Upper Denkyira West, Benjamin Kofi Ayeh has been defeated in the New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) parliamentary primaries. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;dA5LLYIwTNWOw1bPnQSvSA85b3mLsxm9&#8243;]He lost to Mr Samuel Nsonwa Gyan, a teacher and a businessman. Nsonwa is also the current Presiding Member for the Upper Denkyira West District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":128958,"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-128951","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\/128951","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=128951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}