{"id":180887,"date":"2016-01-11T15:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=180887"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:15:44","slug":"hanna-tettehs-former-campaign-manager-defects-to-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=180887","title":{"rendered":"Hanna Tetteh\u2019s former campaign manager defects to NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disqualified National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary aspirant in the Awutu Senya West Constituency of the Central Region has defected to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) citing underdevelopment in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Col. Danny William Osardu who also was campaign manager for Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh in the 2012 election said the constituency lacks the needed development and he believes the NPP and its parliamentary candidate, George Andah will bring that development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;oi76Te2lDJwvDyJLBKwFJlYoqOMdgkId&#8221;]Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> Lt. Col. Osardu who was campaign manager for Madam Hanna Tetteh in the 2012 election argued that the NDC has lost touch with the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI wanted to stand as a parliamentary candidate, not that I\u2019m weaker; the issue is that I\u2019m seeking for development for the people of Awutu Senya. As at now, the group that I wanted to lead did not mind me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said when he compared his vision for the constituency to that of NPP\u2019s George Andah\u2019s adding that \u201cit was talking about development\u201d hence his decision to partner him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lieutenant-Danny-William-Osardu-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-145893 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lieutenant-Danny-William-Osardu-.jpg\" alt=\"Lieutenant Danny William Osardu\" width=\"554\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lieutenant-Danny-William-Osardu-.jpg 508w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lieutenant-Danny-William-Osardu--300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m just looking for somebody who can partner me to develop my people. The present MP has not been in touch with the people as compared to other MPs who come around every weekday or weekend to talk to the people and listen to them,\u201d the defected NDC member added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hanna Tetteh during the NDC parliamentary primaries in the area in 2015 won by <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/11\/21\/ndcdecides-hanna-tetteh-wins-awutu-senya-west-by-97\/\" target=\"_blank\">97% of the votes<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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Danny William Osardu who also was campaign manager for Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh in the 2012 election said the constituency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[2647,2648,5,58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180887","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}