{"id":181458,"date":"2016-01-13T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=181458"},"modified":"2016-01-13T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:00:42","slug":"cpp-to-begin-vetting-of-presidential-aspirants-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=181458","title":{"rendered":"CPP to begin vetting of presidential aspirants tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Convention Peoples\u2019 Party (CPP) has started the vetting process of flagbearer aspirants for the November general elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four persons, former Jomoro MP; Samia Yaba Nkrumah, the party\u2019s former Secretary; Ivor Greenstreet, Legal Practitioner; Bright Akwetey and Joseph Agyapong, successfully filed to contest for the slot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ClvOWC1Ehbu5MpyZntq9rhe6FFaEbLAE&#8221;]In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the CPP\u2019s General Secretary, Nii Armah Akomfra, said the party\u2019s vetting panel has been constituted and work had commenced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Akomfra indicated the Chairman and a Secretary has been chosen for the committee and they are currently working and examining documents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The actual vetting of the aspirants is likely to begin tomorrow, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI don\u2019t believe that today they would be meeting any of their aspirant today. More than likely, I think that will be tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Mr Akomfra, the vetting process is scheduled to end on Friday, January 15 giving the committee ample time to receive petitions and gather relevant information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, \u201cThe vetting is between the 12<sup>th<\/sup> and the 15<sup>th<\/sup>. That means it give that vetting committee a chance to gather all information, receive any petitions, et cetera.\u201d<\/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>The Convention Peoples\u2019 Party (CPP) has started the vetting process of flagbearer aspirants for the November general elections. Four persons, former Jomoro MP; Samia Yaba Nkrumah, the party\u2019s former Secretary; Ivor Greenstreet, Legal Practitioner; Bright Akwetey and Joseph Agyapong, successfully filed to contest for the slot. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ClvOWC1Ehbu5MpyZntq9rhe6FFaEbLAE&#8221;]In an interview with Citi News, the CPP\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[2647,2648,58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181458","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=181458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}