{"id":134423,"date":"2015-07-14T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=134423"},"modified":"2015-07-14T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:13:59","slug":"john-tia-kisses-parliament-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=134423","title":{"rendered":"John Tia kisses Parliament goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Talensi constituency in the Upper East Region, John Akologo Tia says he has no intention of contesting the seat in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Tia who in\u00a02012 lost the seat to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said he had done his part for his constituents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;b7VClPb1NPSgvq5wvPv6rH9dvxuB2qVI&#8221;]\u201cIf I wanted to stage a comeback it would have been now: I have been in politics for 33 years now: I have served my people, I have served the nation and I am continuing to serve the nation in another capacity, so coming back is not something that I am considering,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Cuba, he exclusively in a <strong>Citi News<\/strong> interview described the newly elected Talensi MP, B.T Baba as a worthy successor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI think that if the President has recognized that I can serve the nation in another capacity I should appreciate it and continue: so coming back is not something I am considering,\u201d John Tia added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Known\u00a0as the NDC\u2019s stronghold, the Talensi seat became vacant following the enskinment of the former NPP MP, Hon. Robert Nachinab Mosore as the paramount chief of the Tongo traditional area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governing NDC at a by-election on July 7 recaptured the seat with Benson Tongo Baba as the MP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/Citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Talensi constituency in the Upper East Region, John Akologo Tia says he has no intention of contesting the seat in 2016. John Tia who in\u00a02012 lost the seat to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said he had done his part for his constituents. [contextly_sidebar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":134430,"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-134423","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\/134423","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=134423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}