{"id":151687,"date":"2015-09-15T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=151687"},"modified":"2015-09-15T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T10:31:39","slug":"ndcdecides-party-officers-cautioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=151687","title":{"rendered":"#NDCdecides: Party officers cautioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Northern Regional leadership has warned that any party officers caught openly campaigning for their preferred parliamentary aspirants will be suspended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The region recorded a total of 120 Parliamentary aspirants and only four are female.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;UhjYaR9iEZCSCqlsGHed2O2UsSyC1XM7&#8243;]The party\u2019s regional Secretary, Lawyer Abdul Rauf Khalid in a Citi News interview reiterated the need for all party officers to be guided by the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are thinking of calling the aspirants and all the constituency executives to warn or caution them for the last time that if a particular constituency executive is reported to be openly backing a particular aspirant the region will not hesitate to suspend such a constituency executive,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cConstituency executives, my colleague regional executives and even national should stay away from the aspirants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the NDC should emerge more united after the Parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe can only have formidable and united candidates if after the Parliamentary primaries we don\u2019t have situations where some aspirants will feel that they did not have a leveled playing ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lawyer Rauf commended the Parliamentary aspirants for their tolerance and assured them of a transparent vetting process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Northern Regional leadership has warned that any party officers caught openly campaigning for their preferred parliamentary aspirants will be suspended. The region recorded a total of 120 Parliamentary aspirants and only four are female. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;UhjYaR9iEZCSCqlsGHed2O2UsSyC1XM7&#8243;]The party\u2019s regional Secretary, Lawyer Abdul Rauf Khalid in a Citi News interview reiterated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":151688,"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":[2183,38,2176],"class_list":["post-151687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-maligu-naa","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-tamale-mce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151687","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=151687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}