{"id":25262,"date":"2014-06-16T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=25262"},"modified":"2014-06-16T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:26:18","slug":"push-npp-flagbearer-election-date-forward-regional-chairmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=25262","title":{"rendered":"Push NPP flagbearer election date forward \u2013 Regional chairmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a010 Regional Chairmen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have called on the party to move the planned date for the election of a presidential candidate to September.<\/p>\n<p>According to the chairmen, this will help reduce the negative attacks\u00a0 that characterize the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>The party, a fortnight ago, announced that it will elect a presidential candidate on December 6, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Brong Ahafo Regional Chairman of the NPP, Kwaku Asomah-Kyeremeh told Citi news that the national council should be guided by 2010 precedent, which he believed was impeccable.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the proximity of the election of a presidential candidate to the elections to select candidates for the district elections was not the best because it takes attention away from the election of the local government representatives.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the local government representatives could be key in the national election and as such, their influence should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/NPP-Press-Release.compressed.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Full statement issued by the Regional Chairmen of the NPP<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a010 Regional Chairmen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have called on the party to move the planned date for the election of a presidential candidate to September. According to the chairmen, this will help reduce the negative attacks\u00a0 that characterize the primaries. The party, a fortnight ago, announced that it will elect a presidential [&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":[5],"tags":[255,853,43],"class_list":["post-25262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-airtel","tag-christianity","tag-foresight-medical-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262","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=25262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}