{"id":64915,"date":"2014-11-14T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=64915"},"modified":"2014-11-14T05:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:41:58","slug":"ndc-needs-kofi-adams-to-restore-lost-integrity-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=64915","title":{"rendered":"NDC needs Kofi Adams to restore &#8216;lost integrity&#8217; \u2013 Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former President Jerry John Rawlings has emphasized the need for Kofi Adams to be elected as the National Organizer by the delegates of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to help the party regain its &#8220;lost integrity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I could keep him with me for us to do a lot of work together, but I think the party needs him more than I do. My integrity is still intact, it is the party that has lost its integrity or some members of the leaders that require some people like Kofi to go and increase the quality,&#8221; he opined.<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Adams is contesting the position against incumbent, Yaw Boaten Gyan and Aboagye Didieye.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Sr2CyOiabRXQ2Yzy84kTvNrxGdsJg4Ye&#8221;]Speaking on<strong>\u00a0Eye Witness News<\/strong> on Thursday the former President said Kofi Adams\u00a0\u201cenjoys a lot of respect among a lot of the delegates and the party in general. That\u2019s the very reason that I also hold him in high regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Adams in an earlier interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0said <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/12\/party-elders-support-my-bid-kofi-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>his\u00a0bid to contest the position is to save the party<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and that most of the elders in the party support him.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry John Rawlings further endorsed two persons contending for the National Chairmanship Position in the party claiming\u00a0\u201cHuudu [Yahaya] and [Kofi] Porturphy are the two leading candidates and I hope the bedrock of the two would win and those who would even lose would give one who will win the necessary support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the NDC\u2019s Greater Accra Regional elections, the former President tipped Stephen Akwetey who is contending with incumbent Ade Coker, Daniel Amartey and Henry Ekow Manly-Spain for the Chairmanship position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026Akwetey may have slight lead over the other two, I could be wrong but that\u2019s the decision the electorate would have to make however, the little I\u2019ve heard of him has earned him my respect. \u00a0His quality of his integrity is something we need; it is something that we required in the new leadership especially in a place like Accra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former president is of the view that \u00a0the current executives of the party in the Greater Accra Region have not performed satisfactorily after assuming office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Jerry John Rawlings has emphasized the need for Kofi Adams to be elected as the National Organizer by the delegates of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to help the party regain its &#8220;lost integrity.&#8221; \u201cI wish I could keep him with me for us to do a lot of work together, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":64928,"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-64915","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\/64915","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=64915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}