{"id":164086,"date":"2015-11-02T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=164086"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:04:30","slug":"ndc-primaries-postponed-to-november-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=164086","title":{"rendered":"NDC primaries postponed to November 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), has postponed its primaries which was slated for\u00a0November 7 to November 21, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the party\u2019s General Secretary, made the announcement after an emergency National Executive Committee <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/11\/02\/ndc-to-hold-crunch-nec-meeting-on-parliamentary-primaries-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">(NEC) meeting<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SWdxFUAA0TzKDWTeqc3HiBcx8AQ2A9D9&#8243;]Asiedu Nketia said the party&#8217;s workload was too much hence the postponement.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that they had an ambitious plan for the election but it has now come to their notice they cannot meet the schedule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The processes leading to the party&#8217;s primaries have not been entirely smooth as some\u00a0parliamentary aspirants who were disqualified are\u00a0still contesting their disqualification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some members of the party have also complained about the party&#8217;s biometric voters&#8217; register alleging that\u00a0the register\u00a0in some constituencies\u00a0contain\u00a0names of non-NDC members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last Thursday, some angry NDC members in the Ledzokuku Constituency in Accra <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/10\/29\/ndcdecides-ledzokuku-ndc-members-destroy-party-registerphotos\/\" target=\"_blank\">destroyed the party\u2019s voters\u2019 register<\/a><\/strong><\/span> ahead of an exhibition exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), has postponed its primaries which was slated for\u00a0November 7 to November 21, 2015. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the party\u2019s General Secretary, made the announcement after an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting\u00a0on Monday. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SWdxFUAA0TzKDWTeqc3HiBcx8AQ2A9D9&#8243;]Asiedu Nketia said the party&#8217;s workload was too much hence the postponement. He explained that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":144655,"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-164086","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\/164086","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=164086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}