A Deputy Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has joined forces with some angry youth of the party in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the Northern Region, to protest over the selection of three persons submitted for nomination as District Chief Executive (DCE).<\/p>\n
\u00a0Mohammed A. Komoah in a petition copied citifmonline.com<\/strong>,\u00a0downplayed a purported list submitted to the NPP Northern Regional secretariat for onward submission to the Presidency for consideration.<\/p>\n \u00a0He accused some constituency executives of attempting to impose their preferred candidate on the district, and warned of its dire consequences saying,<\/p>\n \u201cThis attempt to impose a candidate on the constituents will definitely be a recipe for chaos in the constituency.”<\/p>\n \u00a0He called for due diligence in the selection of a credible person for the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district.<\/p>\n \u00a0Mohammed A. Komoah thereby made a passionate appeal to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to reject any list submitted to his office for the nomination of a District Chief Executive for the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district.<\/p>\n Daboya\/Mankarigu protest<\/b><\/p>\n Earlier, the Wasipe NPP Youth Network in the North Gonja District in a similar approch, kicked against the power vested in the constituency executives to do the selection.<\/span><\/p>\n The group also pleaded with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to broaden the scope by deepening grassroots participation in the selection process.<\/p>\n \u00a0The Communications Director, Dawuda Abdul Latif, accused the party\u2019s leadership in the area of open bias in the selection process.<\/p>\n \u00a0Fifteen people including four constituency executives of the Daboya\/Mankarigu constituency are eyeing the DCE position.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b>Thursday January 2, 2017, was the deadline for submission of shortlisted candidates from all 26 MMDAs in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Deputy Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has joined forces with some angry youth of the party in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the Northern Region, to protest over the selection of three persons submitted for nomination as District Chief Executive (DCE). \u00a0Mohammed A. Komoah in a petition copied citifmonline.com,\u00a0downplayed a purported list […]<\/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":[58],"tags":[2210,3,3714],"class_list":["post-291089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dce","tag-ghana-news","tag-sawla-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291089","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=291089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}