{"id":160775,"date":"2015-10-20T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=160775"},"modified":"2015-10-20T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T10:10:27","slug":"im-not-embarrassed-by-baby-with-sharp-teeth-tag-otukonor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=160775","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not embarrassed by \u2018baby with sharp teeth\u2019 tag &#8211; Otukonor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Director of research of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otukonor has stated he was not offended by comments of former President Rawlings describing him and others \u00a0as \u2018babies with sharp teeth\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former President at a special delegates\u2019 congress of the NDC in 2012 expressed his dissatisfaction with\u00a0developments within the party, \u00a0indicating that certain individuals were castigating others who had toiled for the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;JwOp9vVEQ1fyGKdzm0uz68pevdJxSwsE&#8221;]Peter Otukonor who was suspected to be one of such \u2018babies\u2019 on Point blank on <strong>Eyewitness<\/strong> said,\u00a0\u201cI didn\u2019t feel anything about it especially coming from our founder and there was nothing to worry about, at the time we were very critical of the NPP and our communications were on point, it was our responsibility to expose the mischief and the lies that came from the opposition party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter Otukonor who is a former Director\u00a0of the National Youth Authority is contesting the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/22\/ndc-group-pushes-otokunor-for-ablekuma-central-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ablekuma Central seat<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the upcoming primaries of the NDC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He argues the exit of the incumbent MP, Theophilus Tetteh Chaie will create some disunity within the party which he is capable of addressing,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOn one hand yes and on the other hand no. Tetteh Chaie is not contesting and there is a vacuum and there is the need for someone to replace him. We also need a person to increase the votes for President Mahama in the 2016 elections, by so doing we need a very credible candidate and I am that person,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter Otokunor is facing competition from a former constituency chairman, Halidu Haruna and another aspirant, Basha Harsey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Director of research of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otukonor has stated he was not offended by comments of former President Rawlings describing him and others \u00a0as \u2018babies with sharp teeth\u2019. The former President at a special delegates\u2019 congress of the NDC in 2012 expressed his dissatisfaction with\u00a0developments within the party, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":160672,"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":[2,5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-160775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160775","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}