The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential and parliamentary primaries in the Kumbungu constituency of the Northern Region are underway.<\/p>\n
A total of 14,300 eligible voters are expected to exercise their franchise at 22 polling stations.<\/span><\/p>\n Turnout is very high at the polling stations but some of the people are confused about which box to drop either the Presidential or Parliamentary ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n Confusion over the credibility of the voters register necessitated postponement of the primaries to Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n Ras Mubarak is in the race with Dr. Hamza Adam, Alhaji Imoro Kakpagu (a former MP), Amadu Abdul Kahad and Baba Ibrahim.<\/p>\n The National Coordinator of the National Youth Authority (NYA), Ras Mubarak told Citi News he would win the primary.<\/p>\n He promised to mobilize NDC members in the constituency for victory in 2016.<\/p>\n Ras Mubarak also assured the youth of creating jobs and boosting agriculture which is the people\u2019s economic mainstay.<\/span><\/p>\n He called for peaceful co-existence after the primaries to enable him wrestle the seat from the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) incumbent Member of Parliament, Moses Yahaya.<\/span><\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential and parliamentary primaries in the Kumbungu constituency of the Northern Region are underway. A total of 14,300 eligible voters are expected to exercise their franchise at 22 polling stations. Turnout is very high at the polling stations but some of the people are confused about which box to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":168887,"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":[38],"class_list":["post-168874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168874","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=168874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}