{"id":174029,"date":"2015-12-12T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T17:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=174029"},"modified":"2015-12-13T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T11:11:06","slug":"3-arrested-at-pnc-congress-as-ayariga-edward-mahamas-boys-clash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=174029","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested at PNC Congress as Ayariga, Edward Mahama&#8217;s boys clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three people believed to be members of the People&#8217;s National Convention (PNC)\u00a0have been arrested in connection with a shooting incident that occurred during\u00a0a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the Police are yet to brief the media,\u00a0<strong>Citi News<\/strong>&#8216; Upper West Regional Correspondent Latif Mahama says the three were arrested after gunshots were fired\u00a0during a clash between supporters of the party&#8217;s two presidential hopefuls, Hassan Ayariga and Dr. Edward Mahama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Ua3OPv7YhFlKqkeLaT1AxZvoqSK6FRGV&#8221;]He noted however that\u00a0it is unclear what triggered the\u00a0gunshots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says \u00a0police and military personnel have brought the situation under control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lattif Mahama reported that the gun has been seized from an individual who gave his name as Jacob, a supposed bodyguard of Dr. Edward Mahama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hassan Ayariga was earlier accused of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/12\/12\/pnc-congress-hassan-ayariga-shares-freebies-to-delegates-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">engaging in vote buying<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>after he was said to have openly distributed some cash, motocycles and mobile phones to some of the delegates in a bid to be re-elected as the party&#8217;s flagbearer for the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile the congress is currently underway as delegates have converged in Wa to elect executives and a Presidential candidate to lead the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 1,536 delegates are expected to take part in the\u00a0voting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people believed to be members of the People&#8217;s National Convention (PNC)\u00a0have been arrested in connection with a shooting incident that occurred during\u00a0a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Congress. Although the Police are yet to brief the media,\u00a0Citi News&#8216; Upper West Regional Correspondent Latif Mahama says the three were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":174026,"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":[2183,38,2176],"class_list":["post-174029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-maligu-naa","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-tamale-mce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174029","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=174029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}