{"id":149514,"date":"2015-09-07T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=149514"},"modified":"2015-09-07T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:39:04","slug":"mahamas-challenger-heads-to-psychiatric-hospital-for-check-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=149514","title":{"rendered":"Mahama\u2019s challenger heads to psychiatric hospital for check up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A National Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential hopeful, George Boateng, has said he will go to the psychiatric hospital to prove he is mentally sound enough to contest President Mahama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia suggested that Mr Boateng was mentally unstable, and needed treatment, based on his utterances in media interviews he conducted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;32roSLNhV6dh1AE6L9YUPRgTwXn3lQe6&#8243;]An unhappy George Boateng took offense\u00a0and\u00a0also said unkind words to the NDC scribe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has subsequently told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that he is \u201cgoing to the hospital so that they will check me and clear me that I am a fine man to rule the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">George Boateng, who has vowed to unseat President Mahama as flagbearer, said he is hopeful \u201cthe medical doctors will clear me so that the person could know that I am [of] sound mind to rule the nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has also threatened to sue Johnson Asiedu Nketia if the doctors clear him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf he is also alleging those things and the doctors clear me, I can take him to court. That is why I am going to the hospital so that the medical doctors will confirm that I am fit and I can rule the nation,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He earlier purchased nomination forms which party executives dismissed and said they were just draft forms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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