{"id":45062,"date":"2014-09-05T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=45062"},"modified":"2014-09-05T18:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:59:21","slug":"nr-ndc-leadership-criticizes-john-for-john-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=45062","title":{"rendered":"N\/R NDC leadership criticizes John for John Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409915701789_24269\">The Northern Regional Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Umar Yussif Alhassan\u00a0\u00a0has dispelled calls by a group calling itself NDC John for John Movement on delegates to vote all incumbent executives out of office.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409915701789_24266\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;t5zLWwdGqPL0upfxziNMQ8tVHWgXRSdM&#8221;]The group\u2019s Secretary, Salifu A. Baba earlier in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0described the NDC Northern Regional executives as<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/09\/04\/tamale-ndc-group-campaigns-against-old-executives\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong> &#8220;<\/strong><\/span><strong>self-seeking politicians who do not deserve another term.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409915701789_24260\">He claimed that the Chief Sofo Azorka-led team\u2019s inefficiency contributed to the seven seats the party lost to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the 2012 general elections.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409915701789_24263\">In response, the regional NDC chief scribe described the group\u2019s allegations as baseless.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409915701789_24285\">Though he admitted the group is a recognized one in the region, he accused its leadership of side-stepping the regional executives and allowing themselves to be used by &#8220;unseen hands&#8221; for their parochial interest.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409915701789_24287\">Alhaji Umar Yussif Alhassan urged the group to stop what he termed as the &#8220;pull-them-down syndrome&#8221; and canvass for more votes to retain the party in power in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He also advised the group to exhaust the party\u2019s internal dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve their grievances.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409915701789_24292\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Regional Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Umar Yussif Alhassan\u00a0\u00a0has dispelled calls by a group calling itself NDC John for John Movement on delegates to vote all incumbent executives out of office. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;t5zLWwdGqPL0upfxziNMQ8tVHWgXRSdM&#8221;]The group\u2019s Secretary, Salifu A. Baba earlier in an interview with Citi News\u00a0described the NDC Northern Regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17199,"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":[5],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-45062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-delta-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45062","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=45062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}