{"id":57528,"date":"2014-10-18T05:20:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T05:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=57528"},"modified":"2014-10-17T22:42:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T22:42:56","slug":"npp-isnt-broke-sammy-crabbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=57528","title":{"rendered":"NPP isn&#8217;t broke &#8211; Sammy Crabbe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed media reports that it is cash strapped.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Vice Chairman of the party, Sammy Crabbe,\u00a0on<strong>\u00a0Eyewitness News<\/strong>\u00a0said reports over the financial situation of the party were unfortunate and inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports suggested that the party might be <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/16\/well-resist-moves-to-postpone-oct-18-congress-sir-john\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>forced to postpone its much anticipated October 18 national delegates\u2019 congress<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>due to lack of funds.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the party\u2019s steering committee held an emergency meeting to find a possible way out.<\/p>\n<p>A flagbearer aspirant, Nana Akufo-Addo is said to have <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/17\/nana-addo-bails-out-npp-with-ghc600000\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>donated GHC 600,000 to the party<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>to assist with the organization of the congress.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;WQQpoDZiMYAbvReRNZ2f2NS2ngPaOnI2&#8243;]But Crabbe insists the party is financially sound saying, \u201cI don\u2019t believe the party is struggling with funds . I was in the meeting yesterday and all things were covered. An organization as big as ours will definitely have to find means of resolving budgetary issues. I think its very unfortunate that people will have such an impression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He however accused \u201canti NPP\u201d individuals\u00a0of propagating such &#8220;unsubstantiated&#8221; claims in the media.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he is not privy to the information that Nana Addo donated GHC 600,000 to finance the party\u2019s congress.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I have not been to any meeting where it&#8217;s been reported that he [Nana Addo] has offered money for the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NPP&#8217;s Second Vice Chairman further disclosed that the party has\u00a0finally submitted its voters register to the Electoral Commission (EC) ahead of the congress.<\/p>\n<p>The EC had earlier served notice that it may have<strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/17\/nana-addo-bails-out-npp-with-ghc600000\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"> challenges conducting the party\u2019s elections<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">because it was yet to\u00a0receive\u00a0the register from\u00a0the NPP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Crabbe has assured party members that all is set for the national congress to take place.<\/p>\n<p>NPP delegates&#8217; across the country will today head to the polls to elect a\u00a0flagbearer to lead the party in the 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates contesting for the position are Nana Akufo-Addo, Alan Kyerematen and Francis Addai-Nimoh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed media reports that it is cash strapped. The Second Vice Chairman of the party, Sammy Crabbe,\u00a0on\u00a0Eyewitness News\u00a0said reports over the financial situation of the party were unfortunate and inappropriate. Earlier reports suggested that the party might be forced to postpone its much anticipated October 18 national delegates\u2019 congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40703,"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-57528","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\/57528","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}