{"id":214175,"date":"2016-05-13T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=214175"},"modified":"2016-05-13T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:47:10","slug":"spare-parts-dealers-boost-nana-addos-campaign-with-ghc200-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=214175","title":{"rendered":"Spare parts dealers boost Nana Addo&#8217;s campaign with Ghc200, 000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, had his campaign drive for the 2016 November polls boosted with a donation of Ghc200,000 from some spare parts dealers at the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Market at Kaneshie in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is touring parts of Accra in a bid to woo the electorate to return the NPP to power in this year&#8217;s election, took his visit to the business hub where the crowd gave him a rousing welcome.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Citi FM\u2019s<\/strong> Sammi Wiafe who has been covering the tour, a group calling itself\u00a0 \u2018Volunteers for Nana Addo\u2019, made up of Abossey Okine Spare Parts Dealers, donated GH\u00a2200,000\u00a0 towards\u00a0 the\u00a0 NPP flagbearer\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_161959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161959\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-161959 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/election.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/e278e9fd-fe91-4061-8216-36b278d3b420.jpg\" alt=\"e278e9fd-fe91-4061-8216-36b278d3b420\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some spare parts dealers at the Abossey Okine in the Ablekuma Central Constituency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He reported that Nana Akufo-Addo held a mini rally at the Abossey Okine Spare Parts \u00a0market, where he addressed hundreds of NPP supporters and entreated them to vote massively for the party in the November 7 polls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161960 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/election.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/82d9083d-6688-4b2d-9511-89fe80a89741.jpg\" alt=\"82d9083d-6688-4b2d-9511-89fe80a89741\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NPP&#8217;s &#8216;Donate for Change&#8217; campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a bid to generate enough resources for the upcoming polls, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) launched the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/04\/14\/donate-for-change-npp-begs-for-cash-for-election\/\">\u2018Donate for change\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span> campaign aimed at soliciting for funds.<\/p>\n<p>According to the party, they have resorted to this strategy of raising funds because all their funds for the election cannot come from one source so they saw it fit to widen their funding network with more innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kayayei (Head porters) donate to NPP <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the more notable donors to Nana Addo\u2019s campaign was a group of head porters, locally referred to as \u2018Kayayei\u2019, in the Kumasi Metropolis, who <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/16\/homeless-kayayei-donate-ghc-5000-at-npps-fund-raising\/\">donated an amount of Ghc5,000<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to the NPP, at a Fund Raising event held at the Babayara Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The head porters mostly from Northern Ghana, presented the cash as an association to support the party\u2019s campaign ahead of the November polls.<\/p>\n<p>According to the association, they donated the money to ensure Nana Addo does not go around begging for money to become President.<\/p>\n<p>_<\/p>\n<p>By: Awudu Mahama\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, had his campaign drive for the 2016 November polls boosted with a donation of Ghc200,000 from some spare parts dealers at the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Market at Kaneshie in Accra. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is touring parts of Accra in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":214176,"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":[58,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214175","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=214175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}