{"id":320194,"date":"2017-05-18T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=320194"},"modified":"2017-05-18T07:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T07:26:55","slug":"volta-mmdce-nominations-9-rejected-16-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=320194","title":{"rendered":"Volta MMDCE nominations; 9 rejected, 16 confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first phase of Municipal and District Chief Executive nominees\u2019 confirmations ended today in the Volta Region with 9 out of the 25 nominees suffering rejections from their assembly members.<\/p>\n

The 9 causalities, including three females, were all rejected after failing to meet the requirement of a 2-third approval of the assembly.<\/p>\n

Madam Millicent Kabuki Carboo, Miss Ella Boateng and Mrs Josephine Ohene-Boateng, nominees for the Biakoye, South Dayi and Adaklu districts respectively, were outrightly rejected by members of the various assemblies.<\/p>\n

The trio, apart of failing to meet the 2-third approval, could not manage a 50 percent minimum vote to afford them a second round of voting.<\/p>\n

Their male counterparts, Collins Arku, Emmanuel Louis Agama, Andrews Teddy Ofori,Leo Nelson Adzidogah of North Tongu, South Tongu, Hohoe and Akatsi South respectively suffered similar fate.<\/p>\n

While the nominee for Kpando Mr Elvis Kweku Djampoh, who was initially rejected narrowly, escaped rejection today [Wednesday] after the second balloting, his Hohoe neighbor, Mr. Teddy Ofori, after two rounds of voting, could not secure the required 29 votes, representing the stipulated 2-third majority of the 44-member assembly.<\/p>\n

The nominee, who polled 24 votes in the first round, after an intense lobbying led by the Deputy Regional minister, Maxwell Blagodzi, was still 2 votes short of the 2-third requirement in the second round which was held within an hour.<\/p>\n

Two others David Dickson Dzokpe and Prince Sodoke Amuzu of Agortime-Ziope and Akatsi North respectively still have a second chance for balloting.<\/p>\n

The President in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act appointed 25 persons to represent in each of the local assemblies in the Volta Region.<\/p>\n

The nominations are however subject to the approval of the members of the respective assemblies.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what might have contributed to the stiff rejections but keen political observers suspect plots largely orchestrated by failed aspirants from the various assemblies against the President\u2019s choices.<\/p>\n

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VOLTA MMDCE\u2019S APPROVED<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
NO<\/strong><\/td>\nDISTRICT<\/strong><\/td>\nNAME<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nCENTRAL TONGU<\/td>\nTHOMAS MOORE ZONYRAH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nKETU SOUTH<\/td>\nEDEM ELLIOT AGBENORWU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nKETA MUNICPAL<\/td>\nSETH YORMEWU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nHO MUNICIPAL<\/td>\nNELSON AKORLIE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nHO WEST<\/td>\nERNEST VICTOR APAU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nKETU NORTH<\/td>\nANTHONY AVORGBEDOR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nNORTH DAYI<\/td>\nKUDJOE EDMUND ATTAH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nKRACHI EAST<\/td>\nPATRICK JILIMAH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nNKWANTA NORTH<\/td>\nJAKAYI JACKSON<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nNKWANTA SOUTH<\/td>\nJHON THASUN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nKADJEBI (AKAN)<\/td>\nMAXWELL KOFI\u00a0 ASIEDU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nJASIKAN (BUEM)<\/td>\nLAWRENCE AZIALE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nKRACHI WEST<\/td>\nDOUGLAS OSEI NTI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nKRACHI NCHUMURU<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 APPIAH AUGUSTINE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nAFADJATO SOUTH<\/td>\nWISDOM SEMANU SENEADZA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

PENDING SECOND BALLOT, SCHEDULE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
NO<\/strong><\/td>\nDISTRICT<\/strong><\/td>\nNAME<\/strong><\/td>\nDATE<\/strong><\/td>\nTIME<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nAKATSI NORTH<\/td>\nPRINCE SODOKE AMUZU<\/td>\nTue,23rd<\/sup> May,2017<\/td>\n9:00am<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nAGORTIME ZIOPE<\/td>\nDAVID DICKSON DZOKPE<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tue,23rd<\/sup> May,2017<\/td>\n1:00pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

REJECTED THAT MAY NEED RE-NOMINATION<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
NO<\/strong><\/td>\nDISTRICT<\/strong><\/td>\nNAME<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nNORTH TONGU<\/td>\nCOLLINS ARKU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nSOUTH TONGU<\/td>\nEMMANUEL LOUIS AGAMA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nAKATSI SOUTH<\/td>\nLEO NELSON ADZIDOGAH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSOUTH DAYI<\/td>\nELLA BOATENG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nADAKLU<\/td>\nJOSEPHINE OHENE BOATENG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nHOHOE<\/td>\nANDREWS TEDDY OFORI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nBIAKOYE<\/td>\nMILLICENT KABUKI CARBOO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By; Norbert Akpabli\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first phase of Municipal and District Chief Executive nominees\u2019 confirmations ended today in the Volta Region with 9 out of the 25 nominees suffering rejections from their assembly members. The 9 causalities, including three females, were all rejected after failing to meet the requirement of a 2-third approval of the assembly. Madam Millicent Kabuki […]<\/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":[3,6552,247],"class_list":["post-320194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-mmdce","tag-volta-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320194","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=320194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}