{"id":76028,"date":"2014-12-21T05:24:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=76028"},"modified":"2014-12-21T06:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T06:17:29","slug":"will-avail-times-new-ndc-chairman-assures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=76028","title":{"rendered":"I will avail myself at all times &#8211; New NDC chair promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress, (NDC) Kofi Portuphy has assured members of the party, he will avail himself &#8220;at all times&#8221; in the service of the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;whEcm1JAOVF1zGIiOTr91X7SsAqWXLrq&#8221;]&#8221;We will make sure we are available and you will not need lamps to look for us at night,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Portuphy overwhelming beat incumbent Dr. Kwabena Ajei at the party&#8217;s just ended delegates congress in Kumasi in the Ashanti region on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Portuphy\u00a0polled 2,457 as against Dr Kwabena Adjei&#8217;s 316 votes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is victory for the NDC, its victory for all of us. Together we will deliver with all your support,&#8221; Portuphy told delegates at the Kumasi sports stadium where the partys National Delegates Congress was held.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New NDC Chair, Kofi Portuphy&#039;s acceptance speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTUEYXAwz8U?list=UUUTeE-as508hixQrNVHO7vQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Mr Porturphy contested the position together with Dan Abodakpi, a former Minister of State and Dr. Kwabena Adjei who has held the position for two terms.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth aspirant, Alhaji Huudu Yahaya withdrew from the race at the eleventh hour, to throw his weight behind the victor, Mr Purtophy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Purtophy is currently the head of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress, (NDC) Kofi Portuphy has assured members of the party, he will avail himself &#8220;at all times&#8221; in the service of the NDC. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;whEcm1JAOVF1zGIiOTr91X7SsAqWXLrq&#8221;]&#8221;We will make sure we are available and you will not need lamps to look for us at night,&#8221; he said. Kofi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":75961,"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":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-76028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76028","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=76028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}