{"id":87889,"date":"2015-02-03T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=87889"},"modified":"2015-02-03T07:28:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T07:28:48","slug":"confusion-northern-region-ppp-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=87889","title":{"rendered":"Confusion in Northern Region PPP camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10079\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\">Confusion has hit the camp of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) in the Northern Region where the old regional executives have abandoned the party.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10081\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10082\">In solidarity, all old executives in 16 constituencies in the region have followed suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10105\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10104\">This turmoil in the PPP\u2019s camp comes a few days after the party\u2019s regional delegates congress held in Tamale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10107\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10106\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;8nbj7ftjk6fj7P2zKOoggwpQmX9b6Ror&#8221;]They accused the party\u2019s founder, Dr. Papa Kwesi Ndoum of creating another opposition party within the PPP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\">They alleged that Dr. Papa Kwesi Ndoum bribed delegates in the region to vote for his preferred candidates.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10088\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10137\">This, according to the disillusioned PPP old regional and constituency executives amounted to a clear violation of the PPP\u2019s fight against corruption in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10127\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10126\">The former PPP Northern Regional first Vice Chairman, Adams Mohammed asserted, \u201cThe founder, Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum who claims to be fighting corruption is rather promoting corruption within the party and as at now that is the most reason why none of his 4,000 employees vote for him when it is time for elections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10121\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10134\">\u201cThis behavior must be stopped: he is using our party for business, he is not interested in winning power for we in the party to be able to achieve something in the near future: they are interested only in making money by<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; display: inline-block !important; text-indent: 0px !important; float: none !important; font-weight: bold !important; height: 10px !important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: super !important; width: 10px !important; background: transparent !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdncache-a.akamaihd.net\/items\/it\/img\/arrow-10x10.png\" alt=\"\" \/> expanding their businesses with the name of PPP,\u201d he fumed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10087\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\">Taja Emmanuel Dapaah alleged that Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum used district Managers of the GN Bank to finance<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; display: inline-block !important; text-indent: 0px !important; float: none !important; font-weight: bold !important; height: 10px !important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: super !important; width: 10px !important; background: transparent !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdncache-a.akamaihd.net\/items\/it\/img\/arrow-10x10.png\" alt=\"\" \/> the campaigns of his preferred candidates during the regional delegates\u2019 congress.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10110\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10120\">\u201cThat is not how we should run a political party, everyone have a favorite candidate we know that but you don\u2019t come out openly to support your preferred candidates by providing all the resources to the person to campaign and win election.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10108\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10109\">\u201cAnywhere Mutala Mohammed the current Organizer goes that Dr. Ndoum said he and his people are his chosen candidates and that they should vote for them,\u201d Taja claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10086\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10111\">Furthermore, Damba Abdul Wahab\u00a0\u00a0 said, \u201cLooking at the issue of we saying that we are going to elect MMDCE\u2019s and even Ministers and now as we are speaking we are those who are rather promoting corruption in the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10083\" class=\"yiv9737458344MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1422943409117_10084\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion has hit the camp of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) in the Northern Region where the old regional executives have abandoned the party. In solidarity, all old executives in 16 constituencies in the region have followed suit. This turmoil in the PPP\u2019s camp comes a few days after the party\u2019s regional delegates congress held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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-87889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87889","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=87889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}