{"id":50423,"date":"2014-09-23T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=50423"},"modified":"2014-09-23T17:15:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T17:15:33","slug":"ar-ndc-elections-in-limbo-court-to-decide-on-sep-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=50423","title":{"rendered":"A\/R NDC elections in limbo, court to decide on Sep 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing of a case brought before a Kumasi court restraining the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from holding its <strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/06\/23\/ashanti-ndc-sets-timetable-for-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">elections in the Ashanti Region<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> has been scheduled for September 26.<\/p>\n<p>An aggrieved member of the party, Njonolah Linus dragged the NDC and its executives to court for\u00a0allegedly overstaying their\u00a0mandated tenure of office.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the executives were using their authority to disqualify interested party members of the NDC from taking part in the impending elections.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;VJ08Aj8TsptVpiuMQEY4DNklcwn3rutj&#8221;]Njonolah Linus, who is the immediate past President of Tertiary Institution Network (TEIN) of the party at Akrokerri College of Education, also accused the executives of refusing to observe some provisions of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Kumasi Court had earlier ordered the national\u00a0executives of the party to hold on\u00a0with the national elections and that of Ashanti\u00a0Region for a 10-day period.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/09\/04\/ndc-afadzato-south-constituency-elections-held\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Similar court injunctions<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> have prevented the NDC constituency elections in other regions especially in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/09\/08\/court-restrains-ndc-two-affiliates-from-holding-constituency-elections-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Greater Accra<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s General Secretary, Asiedu Nketia has however directed party executives in the various regions to ensure that all such grievances are resolved as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing of a case brought before a Kumasi court restraining the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from holding its elections in the Ashanti Region has been scheduled for September 26. An aggrieved member of the party, Njonolah Linus dragged the NDC and its executives to court for\u00a0allegedly overstaying their\u00a0mandated tenure of office. According to him, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":44673,"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":[38],"class_list":["post-50423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}