{"id":132139,"date":"2015-07-07T08:28:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=132139"},"modified":"2015-07-07T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:31:34","slug":"voting-underway-in-talensi-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=132139","title":{"rendered":"Voting underway in Talensi [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voting has begun in Talensi in the Upper East Region to elect one of the eight candidates vying to represent the constituency in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132153\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-6.jpg\" alt=\"voting in talensi (6)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-6.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In all 39,523 eligible voters are expected to cast their votes in 74 polling stations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132151\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-4.jpg\" alt=\"voting in talensi (4)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Talensi seat became vacant after the incumbent MP,\u00a0 Mr Robert Nachinab Doameng Mosore \u00a0resigned to take up the position of a paramount chief of the Tongo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-132155\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"voting in talensi\" width=\"620\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the candidates contesting the seat include, Joseph Toatoba, Progressive People&#8217;s Party (PPP), Dennis Atiah Tambil, Independent People&#8217;s Party (IPP), James Mambora Doubil, New Vision Party (NVP), Benson Tongo Baba, National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Dr Wumbeogo Michael Namalteng, People&#8217;s National Convention (PNC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132148\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-1.jpg\" alt=\"voting in talensi (1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rest are Yaro Bameezina Philip, Ghana Freedom Party (GFP),Isaac Kungarzore, United Progressive Party (UPP) and Wuni Thomas Pearson Duanab, New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132150\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-3.jpg\" alt=\"voting in talensi (3)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132149\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-2.jpg\" alt=\"voting in talensi (2)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/voting-in-talensi-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Frederick Awuni\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting has begun in Talensi in the Upper East Region to elect one of the eight candidates vying to represent the constituency in Parliament. In all 39,523 eligible voters are expected to cast their votes in 74 polling stations. The Talensi seat became vacant after the incumbent MP,\u00a0 Mr Robert Nachinab Doameng Mosore \u00a0resigned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":132152,"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":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-132139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132139","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=132139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}