{"id":314782,"date":"2017-04-28T16:35:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314782"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:35:55","slug":"savelugu-npp-executives-stage-demo-against-mce-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314782","title":{"rendered":"Savelugu NPP executives stage demo against MCE nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency executives joined hundreds of the party youth in Savelugu Township today (Friday) and demonstrated against the President\u2019s nominee for the Savelugu\/Nantong municipality, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314803 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/savalugu-demo-against-mce-4.jpg\" alt=\"savalugu-demo-against-mce-4\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><br \/>\nClad in red T-shirts and armbands, they held placards with inscriptions such as \u201cThe woman is alien in Savelugu, \u201cWe don\u2019t want her\u201d and \u201cNana Addo do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314805 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/savalugu-demo-against-mce-6.jpg\" alt=\"savalugu-demo-against-mce-6\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Savelugu constituency women\u2019s Organizer, Kande Amadu told Citi News that the MCE nominee, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu is not a registered voter in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314802 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/savalugu-demo-against-mce-3.jpg\" alt=\"savalugu-demo-against-mce-3\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She claimed Hajia Ayishetu Seidu never participated in any party activities ahead of the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n<p>Kande Amadu warned that any attempt to impose the MCE nominee on the people will be fiercely resisted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314801 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/savalugu-demo-against-mce-2.jpg\" alt=\"savalugu-demo-against-mce-2\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to rescind his decision and nominate an indigen from the area.<\/p>\n<p>An official statement issued in support of the demonstration endorsed the MCE nominee\u2019s rejection.<\/p>\n<p>A part of the statement read, \u201cHajia Ayishetu is undeserving and unfit both legally and morally for her nomination as the MCE for Savelugu\/Nantong municipal assembly and we are therefore demanding that Hajia Ayishetu Seidu\u2019s nomination be revoked and replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314799 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/savalugu-demo-against-mce-11.jpg\" alt=\"savalugu-demo-against-mce-11\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaji Ayishetu Seidu is not an electorate in either the Savelugu or Nantong constituency. We are therefore alarmingly intrigued as to how come she has been nominated for the municipality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-314795\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/savalugu-demo-against-mce-7.jpg\" alt=\"savalugu-demo-against-mce-7\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur party elders, founding fathers and former MCE in the two constituencies were not consulted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Savelugu\/Nantong district police commander, ASP Peter Tawiah led his men to avert any untoward situation during the demonstration.<\/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) constituency executives joined hundreds of the party youth in Savelugu Township today (Friday) and demonstrated against the President\u2019s nominee for the Savelugu\/Nantong municipality, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu. Clad in red T-shirts and armbands, they held placards with inscriptions such as \u201cThe woman is alien in Savelugu, \u201cWe don\u2019t want her\u201d [&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":[58,11],"tags":[6645,3,1616,3278],"class_list":["post-314782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories","tag-demo","tag-ghana-news","tag-mce","tag-savelugu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314782","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=314782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}