{"id":280178,"date":"2016-12-27T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=280178"},"modified":"2016-12-27T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:07:08","slug":"referendum-on-extra-region-scheduled-for-2018-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/referendum-on-extra-region-scheduled-for-2018-nana-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Referendum on ‘extra region’ scheduled for 2018 – Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"
President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has underscored his government’s commitment to fulfilling campaign\u00a0promises made to the Western Region including the splitting of the region and the relocation of the headquarters of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation\u00a0(GNPC).<\/p>\n
On the creation of an eleventh region out of the Western Region which may be called the Western-North Region, Nana Akufo-Addo said he expected the constitutionally\u00a0mandated referendum on the issue to happen in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cI committed myself and my government to the creation of a new region out of this vast region which, for the time being, we are calling the Western-North. That commitment is high on the list of priorities of our government.\u201d<\/p>\n
“By the time of the next district assembly elections in 2018, all the constitutional and legal procedures would have taken place and the referendum that the constitution calls for is going to take place together with that exercise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n