{"id":160162,"date":"2015-10-16T07:53:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T07:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=160162"},"modified":"2015-10-16T07:53:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T07:53:06","slug":"ndcdecides-national-office-disqualifies-12-aspirants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=160162","title":{"rendered":"#NDCDecides: National office disqualifies 12 aspirants\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has disqualified 12 parliamentary aspirants out of 23 that were forwarded to them for clearance ahead of\u00a0the party\u2019s November 7 primaries.<\/p>\n

Whereas\u00a0five (5)\u00a0aspirants were given the green light to contest in the race, five others were also put on hold.<\/p>\n

The information was captured in a statement signed by the NDC\u2019s Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho.<\/p>\n

Below is the full statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vetting Cases Referred To National Headquarters<\/p>\n

———————————————-<\/p>\n

After taking a deeper look into the constituency-specific cases that were referred to the National Headquarters after the nationwide vetting exercise, the following decisions have been taken by the National Democratic Congress (NDC):<\/p>\n

Qualified<\/p>\n

————<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Leonard Kangah-Kese (Awutu Senya East)<\/li>\n
  2. Reverend Paul Kobina Quansah (Awutu Senya East)<\/li>\n
  3. James Quayson Jnr (Assin North)<\/li>\n
  4. Anthony Gingong (Bunkprugu)<\/li>\n
  5. John Orwell Mmeh (Juaboso)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Disqualified<\/p>\n

    —————-<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Albert Ziga (Ketu South)<\/li>\n
    2. James Yao Morti (Ketu South)<\/li>\n
    3. Albert Appiah Boateng (Tano North)<\/li>\n
    4. Prince Opoku Mensah (Techiman North)<\/li>\n
    5. Desmond Paitoo (Gomoa East)<\/li>\n
    6. Joseph Amuzu (Saboba)<\/li>\n
    7. Abdul Nasser Adam Aforo (Madina)<\/li>\n
    8. Mary Awusi (Asante Akyem)<\/li>\n
    9. Mamburr Berrick (Bunkprugu)<\/li>\n
    10. Labik Joseph Yaami (Bunkprugu)<\/li>\n
    11. Gyalaludeen Iman Adam (Gomoa Central)<\/li>\n
    12. Kweku Botsie Ghartey (Effutu)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Pending<\/p>\n

      ———-<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Christopher Eleblu (North Tongu)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Constituencies On Hold<\/p>\n

        ——————————<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Evalue Gwira<\/li>\n
        2. Nkwanta South<\/li>\n
        3. Subin<\/li>\n
        4. Tema West<\/li>\n
        5. Chana Paga<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Signed<\/p>\n

          Koku Anyidoho<\/p>\n

          (Deputy General Secretary)<\/p>\n

          –<\/p>\n

          By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          The leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has disqualified 12 parliamentary aspirants out of 23 that were forwarded to them for clearance ahead of\u00a0the party\u2019s November 7 primaries. Whereas\u00a0five (5)\u00a0aspirants were given the green light to contest in the race, five others were also put on hold. The information was captured in a statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":141111,"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":[],"tags":[43,2183,38,2176],"class_list":["post-160162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/160162","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=160162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}