{"id":159778,"date":"2015-10-15T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=159778"},"modified":"2015-10-15T07:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T07:19:54","slug":"ndcdecides-mahama-vetted-cleared-for-primaries-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=159778","title":{"rendered":"#NDCDecides: Mahama vetted; cleared for primaries [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has cleared President Mahama to stand unopposed as the party\u2019s flagbearer in the upcoming November 7 primaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was vetted at the party\u2019s national headquarters in Accra on Wednesday, by the party\u2019s vetting committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159766 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-15.jpg\" alt=\"MAHAMA VETTING (15)\" width=\"620\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-15.jpg 620w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-15-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159755 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-5.jpg\" alt=\"MAHAMA VETTING (5)\" width=\"768\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-5.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-5-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159752 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-2.jpg\" alt=\"MAHAMA VETTING (2)\" width=\"563\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-2.jpg 563w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-2-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia said; &#8220;we had the opportunity to vet the sole candidate of the NDC President John Dramani Mahama, and he was found to be qualified to contest\u2026he is expected to make more than 50% of the votes to qualify as the candidate,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159751 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-1.jpg\" alt=\"MAHAMA VETTING (1)\" width=\"556\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-1.jpg 556w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-1-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159754 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-4.jpg\" alt=\"MAHAMA VETTING (4)\" width=\"739\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-4.jpg 739w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-4-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159761 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-10.jpg\" alt=\"MAHAMA VETTING (10)\" width=\"558\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-10.jpg 558w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MAHAMA-VETTING-10-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, some 23 other cases from the regional vetting of aspirants referred to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party, were reviewed after which 5 candidates were cleared, 10 disqualified and 5 more put on hold for further deliberations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the constituencies put on hold for further consideration include, the Nkwanta South Constituency, Subin Constituency, Tema West and Chana Paga constituencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NDC will on November 7 go to the polls to elect parliamentary candidates and their Presidential candidate for election 2016.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Kwame Botchway\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Photos by: Godwin A. Allotey<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow- button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(! d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p +':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore (js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has cleared President Mahama to stand unopposed as the party\u2019s flagbearer in the upcoming November 7 primaries. He was vetted at the party\u2019s national headquarters in Accra on Wednesday, by the party\u2019s vetting committee. The General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia said; &#8220;we had the opportunity to vet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":159753,"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-159778","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\/159778","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=159778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}