{"id":137364,"date":"2015-07-25T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=137364"},"modified":"2015-07-25T08:31:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T08:31:54","slug":"npp-suspends-primaries-in-7-constituencies-over-court-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=137364","title":{"rendered":"NPP suspends primaries in 7 constituencies over court cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has in a statement reminded its members that due to pending court cases, parliamentary primaries in seven constituencies have been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The affected areas are; Ablekuma West, Okaikoi South, Manhyia North, Krowor, Kumawu, Akontombra and Ho Central.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;dGSOQ5kNIzyYBhxTxsnMXooqyNvx7O6U&#8221;]The statement signed by the NPP General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong stated that per a ruling of the High Court of justice in Agona Swedru on the recent parliamentary primaries in the Gomoa East constituency, there will be run-off of the parliamentary primary on Saturday, July 25th 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, he said the party is exercising its best endeavours to resolve all matters through internal processes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/17\/tema-west-npp-primaries-finally-set-for-july-25\/\" target=\"_blank\">primaries in Tema West<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Constituency will take place on Saturday, July 25 after months of disqualifications, appeals and protests against the disqualification of one of the candidates, Carlos Ahenkorah.<\/p>\n<p>Other constituencies in the Greater Accra Region to hold their primaries on Saturday are Tema Central, Obom Domeabra and Klottey Korle.<\/p>\n<p>Kintampo North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Juabeng in the\u00a0Ashanti Region as well as\u00a0Kwesi Mintim in the Western Region will also take place on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/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>The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has in a statement reminded its members that due to pending court cases, parliamentary primaries in seven constituencies have been suspended. The affected areas are; Ablekuma West, Okaikoi South, Manhyia North, Krowor, Kumawu, Akontombra and Ho Central. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;dGSOQ5kNIzyYBhxTxsnMXooqyNvx7O6U&#8221;]The statement signed by the NPP General Secretary, Kwabena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":56666,"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],"class_list":["post-137364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137364","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=137364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}