{"id":149906,"date":"2015-09-08T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=149906"},"modified":"2015-09-08T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:28:24","slug":"npp-convenes-crisis-meeting-over-internal-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=149906","title":{"rendered":"NPP convenes &#8216;crisis meeting&#8217; over internal troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Council of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called for a National Executive Committee \u00a0(NEC) meeting on Friday to discuss recent <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/09\/08\/npp-will-rise-like-nehemiah-in-the-bible-sir-john\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>happenings<\/strong> <strong>in the party<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;haSZcu9duij1nI4kdA9voZWECOHvY1Bs&#8221;]Sources close to the party\u2019s top hierarchy have told <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> key on the agenda would\u00a0be the bad publicity the party is receiving following allegations of diversion of party funds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, the General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong also went to town, expressing his frustrations about what he said is deliberate attempts by some party officials close to the Flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo, to sideline him.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo-Addo, who is currently in the Eastern Region on his \u2018Rise and Build tour,\u2019 has asked members of the party to cease commentary on NPP matters on radio.<\/p>\n<p>He has also sought to calm supporters of the party and promised the issues would\u00a0be dealt with soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is absolutely no reason for us to be where we are today. Let\u2019s all rally together. We know about the problems that we are having in the party; they are going to be resolved. Let me give you that assurance that they will be resolved. We are a family and sometimes problems come; but when they come they would be resolved\u201d Nana Addo stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The happenings in the NPP according to political watchers are only deepening perceived cracks and disunity among the rank and file of the party and could pose a threat to\u00a0their chances in the 2016 elections.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called for a National Executive Committee \u00a0(NEC) meeting on Friday to discuss recent happenings in the party. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;haSZcu9duij1nI4kdA9voZWECOHvY1Bs&#8221;]Sources close to the party\u2019s top hierarchy have told Citi News, key on the agenda would\u00a0be the bad publicity the party is receiving following allegations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":46015,"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":[43,2183,38,2176],"class_list":["post-149906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","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\/149906","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}