{"id":297265,"date":"2017-02-26T08:09:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T08:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=297265"},"modified":"2017-02-26T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T08:09:59","slug":"npp-vets-mmdce-aspirants-in-northern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=297265","title":{"rendered":"NPP vets MMDCE aspirants in Northern Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Regional secretariat has begun vetting shortlisted applicants lobbying for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>A five member committee chaired by a member of the NPP regional council of elders, Alhaji A.A Bawa is vetting over 200 aspirants from the 26 districts.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP regional Secretary, Sule Salifu told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> the shortlisted aspirants are being subjected to strict proof of their Curriculum Vitae.<\/p>\n<p>He spelt out the criteria as one\u2019s loyalty and contribution to the party\u2019s 2016 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he said the party will look for appointees with clean records required to win the proposed district assembly elections in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the committee\u2019s report will be submitted to the office of the President for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Sule Salifu underscored the need for the shortlisted aspirants to exercise maximum restraint when the final list is announced.<\/p>\n<p>He boasted that the NPP is full of competent and honest people capable of fixing the nation\u2019s myriad developmental deficit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Regional secretariat has begun vetting shortlisted applicants lobbying for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive portfolios. A five member committee chaired by a member of the NPP regional council of elders, Alhaji A.A Bawa is vetting over 200 aspirants from the 26 districts. The NPP regional Secretary, Sule [&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":[5,11],"tags":[3,1264,86],"class_list":["post-297265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-mmdces","tag-northern-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297265","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=297265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}