{"id":659,"date":"2014-02-17T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2014-02-17T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T19:17:45","slug":"bawumia-is-not-the-best-candidate-for-npp-amoako-tuffour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Sir John erred in endorsing Dr. Bawumia \u2013 Amoako Tuffour"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-661\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mahamudu_Bawumia_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661\" alt=\"Dr. Bawumia Mahamadu\" src=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mahamudu_Bawumia_1-300x212.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"fae3e290-3455-4247-a33d-21f027a8fa43\">Bawumia<\/span> Mahamadu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Amoako Tuffour says the General Secretary of the party Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie erred in endorsing the candidature of Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia for the 2016 election if Nana Addo decides not to run.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Afriyie \u00a0suggested that Dr Bawumia Mahmadu should be elected to lead the party in 2016 if Nana Addo fails to contest<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on\u00a0<strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Mr.\u00a0Amoako\u00a0stated that \u201cwhy do we bring Bawumia into the picture now when we don\u2019t have any reason to think Nana Addo won\u2019t run. If Nana Addo decides he won\u2019t run, then this point could be relevant for discussion. We must get to the river before we cross rather than jumping and jumping into another controversial situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana described Mr.\u00a0Afriyie\u2019s\u00a0assertion as an attempt to &#8220;test the waters&#8221; to determine whether Nana Akuffo Addo will still have the necessary backing to lead the party in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party is adopting some strategies in an attempt to test the waters to see what the rank and file will be before they launch operations.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo has been out there on two occasions and he has not been successful, the party has to do some critical analysis and diagnosis on why he lost,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A member of the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Amoako Tuffour says the General Secretary of the party Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie erred in endorsing the candidature of Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia for the 2016 election if Nana Addo decides not to run. Mr. Afriyie \u00a0suggested that Dr Bawumia Mahmadu should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-659","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\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}