{"id":64058,"date":"2014-11-11T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=64058"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:44:09","slug":"ndc-set-new-date-national-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=64058","title":{"rendered":"NDC to set new date for national congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress, NDC is scheduled to hold a Functional Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday to set a date for its National Delegates Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The party is currently holding regional delegates congress across the country in preparation for the national congress.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC&#8217;s October 25\u00a0National Delegates Congress was postponed due to a court case brought against the party executives for\u00a0for\u00a0allegedly overstaying their\u00a0mandated tenure of office.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Aso6NAseXegkyFlEKLbKuD28LYpT9ALA&#8221;]Scheduled congresses at the regions have been rocked with legal suits but the party said it is hopeful it will surmount the challenges.<\/p>\n<p>A Deputy General Secretary of the party, Kofi Adams told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the national congress will be held before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed date which will be settled on by the Functional Executive Committee will be submitted to National Executive Committee (NEC) for approval.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kofi Adams, the party can \u201cactually go ahead with the national congress because once two thirds of the regions have had their regional conferences, you don\u2019t need all the regions per our constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need all the regional conferences to have the national congress,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He was certain that by the close of this week, almost all the regional conference will be completed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/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.crea   teElement(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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress, NDC is scheduled to hold a Functional Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday to set a date for its National Delegates Congress. The party is currently holding regional delegates congress across the country in preparation for the national congress. The NDC&#8217;s October 25\u00a0National Delegates Congress was postponed due to a court case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29255,"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-64058","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\/64058","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}