{"id":135337,"date":"2015-07-17T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135337"},"modified":"2015-07-17T06:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T06:11:43","slug":"tema-west-npp-primaries-finally-set-for-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=135337","title":{"rendered":"Tema West NPP primaries finally set for July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of disqualifications, appeals and protests over Carlos Ahenkorah&#8217;s candidature in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) primaries in the Tema West constituency, the party has finally settled the issues and scheduled elections for July 25.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a decision by the Appeals Committee to<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/16\/carlos-ahenkorah-cleared-to-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"> clear Mr Ahenkorah<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to contest the incumbent Naa Torshie Addo who had earlier sought to get him disqualified because according to her, Mr Ahenkorah did not meet the necessary criteria to contest.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;MXbjRkGfKWiq1ZtZfbeRpJkWVze6HWZC&#8221;]Parliamentary primaries in the constituency was subsequently put on hold following the disagreement over Ahenkorah&#8217;s candidature.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on<strong> Eyewitness News<\/strong> however, the Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the NPP, Nii Adjei clarified that the constituency can now go ahead and organise its primaries since it had \u201cdecisively dealt with the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as the NPP is concerned, there is no longer an issue in the constituency,\u201dAdjei stressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forge ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adjei advised that there is the need for party members to forge ahead and put the challenges that \u00a0hindered the constituency from organising its primaries behind them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party needs to move forward now as the allegations made in the public domain have come to an end. The NPP prides itself in law abiding members,\u201d Nii Adjei stated.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the other constituencies with court issues, Nii Adjei said : &#8220;the NPP Appeals Committee has submitted their report on the other constituencies and we await a decision on them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of disqualifications, appeals and protests over Carlos Ahenkorah&#8217;s candidature in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) primaries in the Tema West constituency, the party has finally settled the issues and scheduled elections for July 25. This follows a decision by the Appeals Committee to clear Mr Ahenkorah\u00a0to contest the incumbent Naa Torshie Addo who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43773,"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-135337","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\/135337","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}