The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has set December 6, 2014 for its National Delegate\u2019s Congress to elect a Flagbearer for the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
The party has therefore opened nomination for all aspirants who seek to lead the party in 2016.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/b>, General Secretary of the party, Kwabena Agyepong said \u201caspirants who are picking a nomination form have to pay GHC 10,000 with a banker\u2019s draft and the forms are available at the secretariat of the General Secretary in the party headquarters in Asylum Down in Accra.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The National Executive Committee and the National Executive Council of the party on Friday endorsed the proposal of<\/span> the steering committee to pave way for the NPP\u2019s primaries.<\/p>\n Nominations will however be closed on July 7th<\/span><\/sup> 2014.<\/p>\n According to the NPP\u2019s constitution when the party is in opposition the latest day to hold a presidential primary to elect a candidate for the national presidential elections is 24 months from the time.<\/p>\n The National Council of the party will convene again on the 19th<\/span><\/sup> of<\/span> June to sort out the issue of the formation of the Standing Committee and other matters.<\/p>\n The two time presidential hopeful for the party ,<\/span>Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has officially declared his intentions to lead the NPP for the third time i<\/span>.<\/p>\n But he will face stiffer opposition from other party members like; Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, a former Health Minister, former Trade Minister<\/span>, Alan Kwadjo Kyeremanten, Mr Joe Ghartey, etc<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has set December 6, 2014 for its National Delegate\u2019s Congress to elect a Flagbearer for the 2016 election. The party has therefore opened nomination for all aspirants who seek to lead the party in 2016. Speaking to Citi News, General Secretary of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12932,"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":[2,5],"tags":[255,1296,38],"class_list":["post-23318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general","tag-airtel","tag-enterprise-life","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318","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=23318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}