{"id":76118,"date":"2014-12-21T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=76118"},"modified":"2014-12-21T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T17:37:15","slug":"ndp-hasnt-considered-returning-ndc-josiah-aryeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=76118","title":{"rendered":"NDP hasn&#8217;t considered returning to NDC \u2013 Josiah Aryeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the National Democratic Party(NDP), Dr Josiah Aryeh has said the NDP has not considered joining its mother party, the NDC yet.<\/p>\n<p>The former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings left the NDC two years ago to form the NDP, a year after the Kumasi Congress that elected the late President Mills as flagbearer.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Rawlings formed the party\u00a0in 2012 after she lost the flagbearship race of the NDC in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the NDC congress on Saturday, former President, Jerry Rawlings called on the party to consider recalling <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/20\/come-back-to-ndc-rawlings-to-his-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Mrs Rawlings to join the NDC.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75776\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rawlings-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75776\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rawlings-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ex-President John Rawlings\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rawlings-2.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rawlings-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ex-President John Rawlings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLet us invite our mother Nana Konadu to come back home. I hope she can hear us, I hope she can see us but then again, can you blame her? he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said although his wife left the party in 2012 to form her own party, she cannot be blamed for her decision to leave.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;4PB9WMMzBnofF51nTA9arnmQF6HnpR95&#8243;]However, Dr Aryeh, in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong> said it has \u201cnever been on the NDP\u2019s agenda\u201d to return to the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>He said if the NDC has considered calling the NDP back , the party[NDP] members have to hold a meeting and collectively agree as to whether to return or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026We believe in plurality of opinions and we have to take decisions collectively. If it comes to a particular point, or landmark or junction, or juncture where we must take a decision, we will take that decision collectively democratically.If former President thinks that is they way to go\u2026his opinion is respected\u2026we have to also consider it within a meeting and come to a collective decision,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/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.createElement(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 Chairman of the National Democratic Party(NDP), Dr Josiah Aryeh has said the NDP has not considered joining its mother party, the NDC yet. The former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings left the NDC two years ago to form the NDP, a year after the Kumasi Congress that elected the late President Mills as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37212,"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-76118","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\/76118","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=76118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}