{"id":58770,"date":"2014-10-23T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=58770"},"modified":"2014-10-23T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T08:58:20","slug":"nana-addo-retains-bawumia-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=58770","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo retains Bawumia today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Newly-elected\u00a0presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo is expected to\u00a0officially announce Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as his running mate for the 2016 general elections on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nana Addo is expected to meet with the National Council of the party to announce his decision, per the requirements of the party\u2019s constitution.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr. Bawumia, was the running-mate of Nana Addo in both the 2008 and 2012\u00a0general elections and many political watchers say he\u00a0would be the best fit, considering his political maturity over the period and depth of knowledge about the country&#8217;s economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nana Addo, last Friday ahead of the party&#8217;s National Delegates Congress, revealed his <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/17\/bawumia-will-be-my-lieutenant-nana-addo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>intention\u00a0to retain Dr. Bawumia<\/strong><\/a><\/span> as his\u00a0\u00a0running- mate in the 2016 elections should he be elected flagbearer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I\u2019ve 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,\u201d Nana Addo\u00a0said on Metro TV\u2019s Good Evening Ghana programme.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0correspondent in the Northern Region Abdul Karim\u00a0Naatogmah reported that\u00a0NPP Chairmen and their Secretaries from the three regions of the north have already arrived in Accra for the meeting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;hQEN41vFgHsXNB5lwgoXcXOGIiwFeLaf&#8221;]And ahead of the official announcement, some NPP supporters in the Northern Region have commended Nana Akufo Addo for the confidence reposed in their kinsman, Dr.Bawumia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A member of the Northern Regional Communication team, Yussif Danjumah said: \u201cWe must commend Nana Akufo Ado for the confidence that he has reposed in northerners and most especially our brother Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He added: \u201cAkufo Addo has demonstrated the level of confidence he has in northerners and we will not hesitate to make sure that we amass a lot of votes for him and the New Patriotic Party to win political power to salvage this country from the poverty we are going through.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NPP Nasara Coordinator for Tamale Central constituency, Abdul Rahaman Samari Nasara stated: \u201cWe will make sure that he becomes the next President of this country not because of anything but for the trust that he has put in us Muslim community and as well our beloved brother, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for consistently maintaining him as his running mate.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The announcement will be made\u00a0at a news conference immediately after the National Council meeting in Accra.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The members of the NPP&#8217;s National Council are to meet and deliberate on the party\u2019s agenda for 2016.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-elected\u00a0presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo is expected to\u00a0officially announce Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as his running mate for the 2016 general elections on Thursday. Nana Addo is expected to meet with the National Council of the party to announce his decision, per the requirements of the party\u2019s constitution. Dr. Bawumia, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":58775,"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":[2,5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-58770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58770","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=58770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}