{"id":141792,"date":"2015-08-08T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T16:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=141792"},"modified":"2015-08-08T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T16:44:53","slug":"kojo-asomani-elected-npp-gomoa-east-parliamentary-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=141792","title":{"rendered":"Kojo Asomani elected NPP Gomoa East parliamentary candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Gomoa East Constituency have elected Kojo Asomani as the party\u2019s parliamentary candidate for the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He polled 205 votes as against his main contender, Dr. Marcus Yaw Danso who had 199 votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Delegates went to the polls today following the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/08\/npp-primaries-gomoa-east-decides-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissal of an\u00a0interlocutory\u00a0injunction<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0brought before the Agona Swedru High Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plaintiff, Mr Adolf Mfodwo, a member of the party in Gomoa East, had prayed the court to declare Dr Marcus Danso, the winner of the election which was held in the area in June this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He claimed that Dr. Marcus\u00a0obtained 154 votes, while Mr Kojo Asomani had 153 votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AtK8PycyqVHYjy34KxXn5c3y1KmIwzBhYgkzU1p1IcAS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-141802 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AtK8PycyqVHYjy34KxXn5c3y1KmIwzBhYgkzU1p1IcAS.jpg\" alt=\"AtK8PycyqVHYjy34KxXn5c3y1KmIwzBhYgkzU1p1IcAS\" width=\"432\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AtK8PycyqVHYjy34KxXn5c3y1KmIwzBhYgkzU1p1IcAS.jpg 432w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AtK8PycyqVHYjy34KxXn5c3y1KmIwzBhYgkzU1p1IcAS-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the Electoral Commission (EC) could not declare a winner because the two candidates \u00a0polled 153 votes each compelling the EC to organize a re-run of the election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kojo-asomani-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-141796 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kojo-asomani-3.jpg\" alt=\"kojo asomani (3)\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kojo-asomani-3.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kojo-asomani-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Akwesi Koranteng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Gomoa East Constituency have elected Kojo Asomani as the party\u2019s parliamentary candidate for the area. He polled 205 votes as against his main contender, Dr. Marcus Yaw Danso who had 199 votes. The Delegates went to the polls today following the dismissal of an\u00a0interlocutory\u00a0injunction\u00a0brought before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":141793,"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-141792","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\/141792","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=141792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}