{"id":168747,"date":"2015-11-22T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=168747"},"modified":"2015-11-22T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T13:10:44","slug":"ndcdecides-benita-okitey-duah-retains-parliamentary-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=168747","title":{"rendered":"#NDCDecides: Benita Okitey Duah retains parliamentary bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incumbent member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Hon. Benita Sena Okity-Duah, has secured a comprehensive victory in the\u00a0National Democratic Congress\u00a0(NDC) primary.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;GCBWtpRlRBxWI01e4fLCaOLtTk6486qY&#8221;]She polled 4,161 votes while her closest contender who is the immediate past Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ledzokuku-Krowor;\u00a0Daniel Amartey Mensah, had 2,092 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Another contender Gilbert Mensah Amartey also polled 322 votes, with a former Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku; Nii Nortey Duah managing a scanty\u00a0109 votes.<\/p>\n<p>In the presidential elections, 5,315 voted yes to endorse President Mahama as presidential candidate for the 2016 elections, while 332 voted no.<\/p>\n<p>In the build up to the polls, Gilbert Mensah Amartey, had\u00a0accused the \u00a0Okiti-Duah and Mr Amartey Mensah of having used their positions in the party to influence the registration of non-party members.<\/p>\n<p>These accusations came on the back of the destruction of the NDC\u2019s voters\u2019 register for the Ledzokuku constituency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali-Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incumbent member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Hon. Benita Sena Okity-Duah, has secured a comprehensive victory in the\u00a0National Democratic Congress\u00a0(NDC) primary. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;GCBWtpRlRBxWI01e4fLCaOLtTk6486qY&#8221;]She polled 4,161 votes while her closest contender who is the immediate past Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ledzokuku-Krowor;\u00a0Daniel Amartey Mensah, had 2,092 votes. Another contender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":168857,"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-168747","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\/168747","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=168747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}