{"id":147233,"date":"2015-08-29T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=147233"},"modified":"2015-08-29T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T11:18:43","slug":"no-one-should-contest-mahama-bagbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=147233","title":{"rendered":"No one should contest Mahama &#8211; Bagbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Majority Leader in Parliament, \u00a0Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin has asked members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) not to allow anyone to\u00a0President John Mahama should not be contested in the forthcoming primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;H9Shd96LAofFPl1d72xjlAJ3dEoTwoGm&#8221;]According to Bagbin, who has been an ardent critic of the government, \u201cthe President has done very well and he doesn\u2019t think anyone will contest him\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is no need for anybody to contest him. There is a consensus that no one should contest him,\u201d Bagbin added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nadowli-Kaleo legislator\u00a0expressed profound optimism in the likelihood of the NDC winning the 2016 election with John Mahama as the flagbearer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President if unchallenged in the primaries will be in the race against the New Patriotic Party\u2019s Flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo to be president for his second term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Bagbin who has been in Parliament since 1992 is also seeking re-election and would contest in the NDC&#8217;s primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Kwame Botchway\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Majority Leader in Parliament, \u00a0Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin has asked members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) not to allow anyone to\u00a0President John Mahama should not be contested in the forthcoming primaries. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;H9Shd96LAofFPl1d72xjlAJ3dEoTwoGm&#8221;]According to Bagbin, who has been an ardent critic of the government, \u201cthe President has done very well and he doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":117756,"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":[],"tags":[43,2183,38,2176],"class_list":["post-147233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-maligu-naa","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-tamale-mce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147233","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=147233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}