{"id":227418,"date":"2016-07-02T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227418"},"modified":"2016-07-02T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:59:36","slug":"manhyia-north-npp-primary-underway-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227418","title":{"rendered":"Manhyia North NPP primary underway [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary in the Ashanti Region&#8217;s Manhyia North constituency is underway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227433\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/093aee67-df6e-43c1-83e7-222c93dbf577.jpg\" alt=\"093aee67-df6e-43c1-83e7-222c93dbf577\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NPP in the constituency elected its executives a week ago, paving the way for the primary to elect its parliamentary candidate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227428\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ce8e8237-44e9-43d9-940b-d726ced85e7e.jpg\" alt=\"ce8e8237-44e9-43d9-940b-d726ced85e7e\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previous attempts to elect both constituency executives and a parliamentary candidate were stalled because of internal wrangling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227429\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7c850449-6fc1-4fb2-be01-227577c0563a.jpg\" alt=\"7c850449-6fc1-4fb2-be01-227577c0563a\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some parliamentary aspirants were accusing the Manhyia North NPP executives of intentionally bloating the register.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227432\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/34229076-dfa9-4756-a866-4a650d93ae9b.jpg\" alt=\"34229076-dfa9-4756-a866-4a650d93ae9b\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are three aspirants vying for the slot; the incumbent Member of Parliament for the constituency; Collins Owusu Amankwah, Richard Osei Bamfo and Kwesi Konadu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227431\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/e4ce302d-68dd-467e-b15e-e3cc12124f73.jpg\" alt=\"e4ce302d-68dd-467e-b15e-e3cc12124f73\" width=\"600\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s Lauretta Timah reported that, security is unusually tight at the polling grounds as delegates are being searched thoroughly before they are given the ballot paper to cast their votes.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates are also being prevented from carrying any electronic gadgets to the voting booths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Lauretta Timah<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary in the Ashanti Region&#8217;s Manhyia North constituency is underway. The NPP in the constituency elected its executives a week ago, paving the way for the primary to elect its parliamentary candidate. Previous attempts to elect both constituency executives and a parliamentary candidate were stalled because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":227429,"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":[58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227418","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=227418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}