The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has denied reports that the party leadership will press party delegates to agree on a compromise candidate to run for President in 2016.<\/p>\n
A compromise candidate can be broadly defined to mean a person selected as party nominee when a deadlock emerges among leading candidates.<\/p>\n
Some media reports have claimed that the National Executive and Steering Committees of the party have been scheming to persuade some flagbearer aspirants to rescind their decision to run for the party\u2019s 2016 ticket.<\/p>\n
But, First Vice Chairman of the NPP, Freddie Blay, described the reports as \u201cspeculative\u201d in a Citi News<\/strong> interview.<\/p>\n \u201cThe party has not made any decision on that,\u201d Mr. Blay said. \u201cWe have not met on that; the constitution of the party will not even allow us to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n A number of party stalwarts have so far declared publicly that they intend to lead the NPP into the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n They include the party\u2019s flagbearer in the last two presidential elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, a former Minister for Trade, Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, and a former Minister for NEPAD, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku.<\/p>\n The rest are Dr. Richard Anane, a former Health Minister, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joe Ghartey and Member of Parliament for Mampong, Francis Addai Nimoh.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Sammi Wiafe\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has denied reports that the party leadership will press party delegates to agree on a compromise candidate to run for President in 2016. A compromise candidate can be broadly defined to mean a person selected as party nominee when a deadlock emerges among leading candidates. Some media reports have claimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5248,"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-15185","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\/15185","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}