{"id":56154,"date":"2014-10-14T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T07:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=56154"},"modified":"2014-10-14T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T11:19:16","slug":"i-wont-vote-for-nana-addo-or-alan-kufuor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=56154","title":{"rendered":"I won&#8217;t vote for Nana Addo or Alan &#8211; Kufuor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president John Agyekum Kufour has revealed that he will not vote for any of the candidates contesting the flagbearership race in the national delegates\u2019 congress of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kufuor, who was president for two terms from 2001 to 2008, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>refrained from voting<\/strong> <\/span>in the party\u2019s super delegate\u2019s congress in August, stressing the need to preserve his neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;c8RKZW8YQOsXXOhdo9ZxJqaRAbUKe5KI&#8221;]Speaking to <b>Citi News<\/b> the spokesman for the former President, Frank Agyekum, said<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0Mr. Kufuor believes the best thing for him to do, at this point in time in the NPP\u2019s scheme of things, is not to cast his votes but rather stay behind and give his support to whoever wins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There have been claims that Mr. Kufuor was supporting one of the candidates in the race to become the party\u2019s flagbearer in the 2016 elections, which Mr. Agyekum described as &#8220;shameful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Agyekum further said his boss&#8217; decision to abstain from the elections was also made to prevent any such comments being made against the former president.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56121\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/nana-akufo-addo-leader-of-npp-19-602x330.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56121 \" alt=\"nana-akufo-addo-leader-of-npp-19-602x330\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/nana-akufo-addo-leader-of-npp-19-602x330.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/nana-akufo-addo-leader-of-npp-19-602x330.jpg 602w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/nana-akufo-addo-leader-of-npp-19-602x330-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nana Akufo Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe [Mr. Kufuor]wants to stay above acrimony and above anything that would appear as if one side is favoured against the other so now he\u2019s waiting for whoever wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54978\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0067-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54978\" alt=\"Alan Kyeremanten\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0067-1.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0067-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0067-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Kyeremanten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three candidates, Nana Akufo Addo, Alan Kyerematen and\u00a0Francis Addai Nimoh will contest the elections on Sunday and Frank Agyekum stated\u00a0that whoever wins the election on Sunday will have \u201cMr. Kufuor\u2019s 100% support.\u201d<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president John Agyekum Kufour has revealed that he will not vote for any of the candidates contesting the flagbearership race in the national delegates\u2019 congress of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Saturday. Kufuor, who was president for two terms from 2001 to 2008, refrained from voting in the party\u2019s super delegate\u2019s congress in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":47619,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-56154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}