{"id":43631,"date":"2014-09-01T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=43631"},"modified":"2014-09-01T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T15:41:53","slug":"joe-ghartey-gives-up-on-npp-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=43631","title":{"rendered":"Joe Ghartey gives up on NPP race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the flagbearer hopefuls in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Joe Ghartey, has announced he will not contest Nana Akufo-Addo and the three others in the planned October congress.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Ghartey survived Sunday\u2019s Super Delegates Congress with 22 votes representing 7% of the total valid votes cast which saw Nana Addo win with an overwhelming 81%.<\/p>\n<p>Despite surviving Sunday\u2019s contest, Mr. Ghartey says he will not contest in the final congress.<\/p>\n<p>The second deputy Speaker of Parliament in an interview on Sky FM in the Western Region said: \u201cI am not going to contest in the October 17 elections; we are all going to work for the NPP to come back to power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/04\/24\/joe-ghartey-addai-nimoh-join-npp-flag-bearer-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>When he joined the NPP flagbearership race last April<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, he believed he had paid his dues to the party and in public service \u201cand I think I am ready to serve my party and the nation in the high office of President,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he could work with all factions within the party as a compromise candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NPP at this stage needs a compromise candidate and I believe the party in broad terms is also looking for such a candidate,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>But he has made a U-turn and according to some party insiders, he is likely join the Nana Akufo-Addo camp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the flagbearer hopefuls in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Joe Ghartey, has announced he will not contest Nana Akufo-Addo and the three others in the planned October congress. Joe Ghartey survived Sunday\u2019s Super Delegates Congress with 22 votes representing 7% of the total valid votes cast which saw Nana Addo win with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38627,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2,5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-43631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43631","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=43631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}