{"id":384089,"date":"2017-12-17T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=384089"},"modified":"2018-01-16T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:39:40","slug":"controversial-npp-constitutional-amendment-proposals-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=384089","title":{"rendered":"‘Controversial’ NPP constitutional amendment proposals withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three \u2018controversial\u2019 proposals submitted for amendment in the governing\u00a0New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) constitution have been withdrawn.<\/p>\n

This was revealed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an address at the party\u2019s extraordinary delegates\u2019 conference ongoing in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”TrzNRqoY1NXqKcUxXF8VCumOw9Uw0F5k”]President Akufo-Addo while addressing the thousands of delegates gathered from various parts of the country and the party\u2019s branches in other countries, said some of the proposed amendments \u201cwill be a disaster\u201d if adopted.<\/p>\n

His remark was reiterated by the majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu who stated that two of the parliamentary group\u2019s proposals would be withdrawn.<\/p>\n

The proposals are;<\/p>\n

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  1. For Members of Parliament to appoint constituency executives<\/li>\n
  2. For party members with dual citizenship to be disqualified from contesting for any party position<\/li>\n
  3. For the flagbearer of the party to be considered as the leader of the party<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Disagreement over amendments<\/strong><\/p>\n

    There had been some disagreements over some of the proposals after they were made through an\u00a011-member committee, chaired by\u00a0First Vice Chairman, F.F. Antoh.<\/p>\n

    The NPP-USA branch for instance\u00a0kicked against the proposal to disqualify persons with dual citizenship from contesting any party position.<\/p>\n

    In a strong-worded statement, it accused some persons in the party of hijacking the constitutional review process.<\/p>\n

    Meanwhile, the acting National Chairman of the NPP, Freddie Blay, has called on delegates to ensure that they resolve any lingering issues they might have before they leave the Conference.<\/p>\n

    Mr. Blay said the NPP can take a step closer to retaining power in the 2020 general elections if the Conference is conducted in a peaceful manner.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    –<\/p>\n

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

    Three \u2018controversial\u2019 proposals submitted for amendment in the governing\u00a0New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) constitution have been withdrawn. This was revealed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an address at the party\u2019s extraordinary delegates\u2019 conference ongoing in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi. [contextly_sidebar id=”TrzNRqoY1NXqKcUxXF8VCumOw9Uw0F5k”]President Akufo-Addo while addressing the thousands of delegates gathered from various parts of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":384090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[8,3,56],"class_list":["post-384089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-akufo-addo","tag-ghana-news","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384089","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/384090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}