{"id":57261,"date":"2014-10-17T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=57261"},"modified":"2014-10-17T11:26:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:26:53","slug":"bawumia-will-be-my-lieutenant-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=57261","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia will be my lieutenant &#8211; Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced that he plans to maintain Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia as his\u00a0\u00a0running- mate in the 2016 elections if delegates of the party elect him to lead them into the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia, was the running-mate of Nana Addo in both the 2008 and 2012\u00a0general elections and many political watchers say he has matured politically and he is still the best bet for Nana Addo.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;3FNcZ1Lz0tYz556Z0yZL8x7YJIePj1XW&#8221;]Nana Addo, <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/08\/31\/nana-addo-rolls-to-easy-victory-with-81-28-of-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>regarded as one of the favourites<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the flagbearership race, has reiterated his desire to to have Dr. Bawumia partner him for the elections in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely. You can&#8217;t even call it an open secret, it&#8217;s absolutely my intention. I&#8217;ve said so publicly already that were I to be privileged once again with the honour of leading this party, that I want to have\u00a0Dr. Bawumia by my side,&#8221; he said on Metro TV&#8217;s Good Evening Ghana programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been a tremendous asset to the party and to myself and he&#8217;ll make an extremely capable and effective Vice-President of Ghana and help us. I have a great deal of confidence in him and we work well together,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Nana Addo added that he would consult the National Council of the party before making his decision official, per the requirements of the party&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57263\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/650779121_77576.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57263\" alt=\"In demand: Dr. Bawumia is reportedly wanted by both Nana Addo and Alan Kyerematen\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/650779121_77576.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/650779121_77576.jpg 470w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/650779121_77576-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In demand: Dr. Bawumia is reportedly wanted by both Nana Addo and Alan Kyerematen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia&#8217;s rigorous campaign in the three regions of the North in the last elections, \u00a0is said to have shored up the NPP&#8217;s votes in those regions.<\/p>\n<p>He is also said to appeal to the masses there because he hails from the Northern Region.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the NPP traditionally prefers the balance of having a southerner to partner a northerner to lead the party in general elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eddiekkofi\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @eddiekkofi<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced that he plans to maintain Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia as his\u00a0\u00a0running- mate in the 2016 elections if delegates of the party elect him to lead them into the 2016 elections. Dr. Bawumia, was the running-mate of Nana Addo in both the 2008 and 2012\u00a0general elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":57262,"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-57261","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\/57261","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=57261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}