{"id":57038,"date":"2014-10-16T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=57038"},"modified":"2014-10-16T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:30:32","slug":"ndc-pressure-group-slams-asiedu-nketiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=57038","title":{"rendered":"NDC pressure group slams Asiedu Nketiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) pressure group in the Northern Region, has condemned the party\u2019s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah\u2019s recent call on the party\u2019s delegates to vote for people he [Asiedu Nketiah] deemed qualified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnson Asiedu Nketiah made the call at the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/08\/asiedu-nketia-backs-dr-kwabena-adjei\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>campaign launch of incumbent NDC national Chairman, Dr. Kwabena Agyei<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> who is seeking reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Asiedu Nketia said at the campaign launch that: \u201cOn my way here somebody said, \u2018are you going to endorse Dr Kwabena Adjei?\u2019 I said, Dr Kwabena Adjei doesn&#8217;t need my endorsement, he is an endorsement in himself, because your records will speak for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cthe party at this stage needs dedicated and loyal leaders to retain it in power come 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nkRGoSB9JqZozt3xGiRjfwmiqOcTAkwZ&#8221;]He however assured that his doors were open to any candidate who wants him to be at their campaign launch but warned \u201cI will be available but I will come with the records I know about that person and then relate those records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pressure group, Concerned Group of NDC said it is unhappy with Johnson Asiedu Nketiah\u2019s intimidating comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group\u2019s Spokesperson, Gariba A. Zakariah claimed, Mr. Asiedu Nketiah&#8217;s &#8220;open endorsement&#8221; of Dr. Kwabena Agyei at his campaign launch amounted to discrimination and an abuse of the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> the group will resist any attempt by John Asiedu Nketiah &#8220;to impose his surrogates on the party at all levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He notified the NDC General Secretary to stop behaving as if the party is his private property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) pressure group in the Northern Region, has condemned the party\u2019s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah\u2019s recent call on the party\u2019s delegates to vote for people he [Asiedu Nketiah] deemed qualified. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah made the call at the campaign launch of incumbent NDC national Chairman, Dr. Kwabena Agyei who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":5143,"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":[38],"class_list":["post-57038","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\/57038","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=57038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}