{"id":143157,"date":"2015-08-13T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=143157"},"modified":"2015-08-13T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:52:28","slug":"ndc-to-hold-parliamentary-presidential-primaries-on-november-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=143157","title":{"rendered":"NDC to hold parliamentary, presidential primaries on November 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has set November 7, 2015 for its presidential and parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;bPBT52Bb1V9RpzPhVLkxzw3O4hb6SEdn&#8221;]This was a decision taken at a Functional Executive Committee (FEC) meeting earlier today, attended by President John Dramani Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur among top party and government functionaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was also announced during the meeting that every registered member of the party will take part in the exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Committee among other things proposed the expansion of the current Electoral College to include all biometrically registered members of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NDC has so far registered over 500,000 members in its new biometric registration exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has anticipated to register about\u00a01.5 million members by August 31.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NDC&#8217;s FEC also agreed on \u00a0a filing fee of GH\u00a250,000 for the presidential slot and\u00a0GH\u00a210,000 for male parliamentary aspirants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also agreed on GH\u00a25,000 for women and disabled aspirants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Farida Shaibu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has set November 7, 2015 for its presidential and parliamentary primaries. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;bPBT52Bb1V9RpzPhVLkxzw3O4hb6SEdn&#8221;]This was a decision taken at a Functional Executive Committee (FEC) meeting earlier today, attended by President John Dramani Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur among top party and government functionaries. It was also announced during the meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66229,"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-143157","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\/143157","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=143157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}