{"id":198585,"date":"2016-03-14T06:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=198585"},"modified":"2016-03-14T06:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:24:57","slug":"chiefciti-fm-organize-political-symposium-tamale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=198585","title":{"rendered":"Chief\/Citi FM to organize political symposium in Tamale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chief of Tamale in collaboration with Citi FM is planning to hold\u00a0a political symposium in Tamale ahead of the November 7 polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naa Dakpema Dawuni Alhassan anticipates the event will promote\u00a0political tolerance amongst the youth of Tamale for peaceful elections on November 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naa Dakpema Dawuni Alhassan in a <strong>Citi News<\/strong> interview said political differences should not warrant enmity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t take political differences to fight each other it doesn\u2019t look nice \u00a0because we are all the same.\u00a0The political differences in the country the way I see it, we can fight it out by understanding each other.\u00a0If you look at what they discuss on the breakfast show or newspaper review every morning, they use hot words on each other but at the end of the show they get up and shake each other to show that they are all wearing the flag of the nation and that is the part I like most,\u201d Naa Dakpema narrated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am still planning and thinking of what I will do about especially these two political parties, the NDC<br \/>\nand the NPP: they should also see each other as Ghanaians who are fighting for the nation and shouldn\u2019t take political differences to fight each other,\u201d he underscored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most often, political tensions build up in the Tamale Metropolis at the peak of every electioneering season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the identified hotspots are Aboabo, Changli, Zogebli, Lamashegu and Dagban-Daba fong in the Tamale Metropolis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These areas accommodate political vigilante groups including the NPP\u2019s Kandaha Boys, the NDC\u2019s Aluta and Azorka Boys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is against this backdrop, that the Chief of Tamale in collaboration with Citi Fm intends to organize the political symposium to ensure peaceful elections on November 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of Tamale in collaboration with Citi FM is planning to hold\u00a0a political symposium in Tamale ahead of the November 7 polls. Naa Dakpema Dawuni Alhassan anticipates the event will promote\u00a0political tolerance amongst the youth of Tamale for peaceful elections on November 7. Naa Dakpema Dawuni Alhassan in a Citi News interview said political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":198586,"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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198585","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=198585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}