{"id":55195,"date":"2014-10-10T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=55195"},"modified":"2014-10-10T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:59:29","slug":"ras-mubarak-flees-ablekuma-to-try-kumbugu-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=55195","title":{"rendered":"Ras Mubarak flees Ablekuma to try Kumbugu seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">After a resounding defeat in his attempt to become the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma North constituency, National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth activist, Ras Mubarak is making a play for\u00a0 the Kumbungu seat in the Northern Region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party MP Joe Appiah, won the Ablekuma North constituency seat with about 60% of the total votes cast, while Ras Mubarak got 38.8% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Ras Mubarak has now ditched the Ablekuma North constituency which is largely seen as a seat for the NPP and launched another political journey on social media site facebook, announcing his intention to contest the Kumbungu seat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ras.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55201\" alt=\"Ras\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ras.jpg\" width=\"856\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ras.jpg 856w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ras-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, over 1,000 people have liked the specially created page.<\/p>\n<p>Ras Mubarak confirmed to <strong>citifmonline.com<\/strong> that the facebook page belongs to him but declined to make any further comments about his intentions.<\/p>\n<p>The Kumbugu seat was won by the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) after a bye-election in May 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The incumbent MP at the time, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni abdicated the seat after his appointment as Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States.<\/p>\n<p>The CPP\u2019s Mahamadu Moses Yahaya won with a 51.8% margin, beating competition from his closest contender from the NDC Alhaji Imoro Yakubu Kpagu.<\/p>\n<p>The Kumbungu constituency was carved out of the former Tolon-Kumbungu district and serves as a strong backbone for most communities, especially the Tamale Metropolis and Savelugu-Nanton district and their environs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a resounding defeat in his attempt to become the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma North constituency, National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth activist, Ras Mubarak is making a play for\u00a0 the Kumbungu seat in the Northern Region. The New Patriotic Party MP Joe Appiah, won the Ablekuma North constituency seat with about 60% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":55202,"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":[5],"tags":[54,43,38],"class_list":["post-55195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-delta-force","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55195","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}