{"id":260906,"date":"2016-10-23T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=260906"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:37:17","slug":"savelugu-independent-candidate-begins-bid-to-unseat-ndc-incumbent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=260906","title":{"rendered":"Savelugu independent candidate begins bid to unseat NDC incumbent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The independent Parliamentary candidate in the Savelugu constituency\u00a0Alhassan Iddrisu Bunglung, has served notice of his ambition of unseating the\u00a0governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP with a massive campaign launch dubbed, \u201cTikuzyemi, tibijohra,\u201d to wit \u201cWe are firmly rooted, no shaky.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of people especially the youth there attended the campaign launch at the main Savelugu market square.<\/p>\n

Scores of them wore T\u2019 Shirts of the NDC Presidential candidate, President John Dramani Mahama embossed with the portrait of Alhassan Iddrisu Bunglung.<\/p>\n

Addressing the massive crowd, he thanked them for their irresistible support and pleaded with them to let it reflect on the secret ballot on December 7.<\/p>\n

He implored the electorate in Savelugu to ignore what he described as the vile propaganda against him by the NDC Parliamentary candidate, Alhassan Abdulai Red on his campaign platforms.<\/p>\n

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According to Alhassan Iddrisu Bunglung, the NDC Parliamentary candidate has disappointed residents of Savelugu as the MCE.<\/p>\n

He claimed Alhassan Abdulai Red has lost touch with the grass root and cannot represent the constituency in Parliament.<\/p>\n

He outlined agriculture, education, health and youth employment as his priority.<\/p>\n

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Speaker upon speaker including some NDC ward Chairmen supporting Alhassan Iddrisu\u2019s independent ambition urged the electorate to massively vote for him on December 7.<\/p>\n

They touted Alhassan Iddrisu Bunglung as a God fearing and generous person capable of addressing the problems in the constituency when giving the mandate.<\/p>\n

They vowed to intensify their campaign against the NDC\u2019s Alhassan Abdulai Red.<\/p>\n

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The independent Parliamentary candidate, Alhassan Iddrisu Bunglung left the NDC after the party\u2019s Parliamentary primary.<\/p>\n

The Savelugu Municipal Chief Executive, Alhassan Abdulai Red won the primary but Alhassan Iddrisu Bunglung felt cheated and decided to go independent,<\/p>\n

Several attempts by some NDC bigwigs at the national and regional levels to convince him to rescind his decision hit a snag.<\/p>\n

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The Savelugu Parliamentary contest is between the NDC\u2019s Alhassan Abdulai Red, the NPP\u2019s Mohammed Abdul Samed-Gunu and the Independent candidate, Alhassan Iddrisu Bunglung.<\/p>\n

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/ghelections.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The independent Parliamentary candidate in the Savelugu constituency\u00a0Alhassan Iddrisu Bunglung, has served notice of his ambition of unseating the\u00a0governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP with a massive campaign launch dubbed, \u201cTikuzyemi, tibijohra,\u201d to wit \u201cWe are firmly rooted, no shaky.\u201d Hundreds of people especially the youth there attended the campaign launch at the main Savelugu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":260916,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260906","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=260906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}