{"id":143023,"date":"2015-08-13T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=143023"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:00:24","slug":"ndc-leadership-meets-over-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=143023","title":{"rendered":"NDC leadership meets over primaries \u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is meeting today to among other things deliberate on the party\u2019s calendar for the upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Ii03RU3km7YgJcCwxYoF9Qo3xcPB7Cbx&#8221;]Citi News<\/strong> understands that the party will decide on the proposal for the organisation of concurrent primaries in October to elect the party&#8217;s 2016 presidential and parliamentary candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FEC is proposing the expansion of the current Electoral College to include all biometrically registered members of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FEC&#8217;s proposals are expected to be deliberated upon, by NEC next month after which nominations will open for the contests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, there are new names popping up to contest in the Parliamentary Primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the names that have got the country talking are names of some media practitioners including\u00a0Abeiku Santana [Mfansteman constituency in the Central region], Eric Don-Arthur [Effutu constituency in the Cetral Region] and others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Raymond Acquah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is meeting today to among other things deliberate on the party\u2019s calendar for the upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary primaries. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Ii03RU3km7YgJcCwxYoF9Qo3xcPB7Cbx&#8221;]Citi News understands that the party will decide on the proposal for the organisation of concurrent primaries in October to elect the party&#8217;s 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":115599,"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-143023","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\/143023","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=143023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}