{"id":357908,"date":"2017-09-29T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=357908"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:07:16","slug":"gja-elections-aspirant-accuse-incumbent-executives-of-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/gja-elections-aspirant-accuse-incumbent-executives-of-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"GJA elections: Aspirant accuse incumbent executives of manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nutor Bibini Nutor, the campaign manager of Johnny Aryeetey, a presidential aspirant in the ongoing Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has challenged the electoral processes, alleging manipulation by the incumbent executives.<\/p>\n
He said the elections cannot be considered to be free and fair as the incumbent executives, led by President Affail Monney, are skewing the processes in their favour.<\/p>\n
He told Citi News’ <\/strong>Marie-Franz Fordjoe\u00a0that he believes the election is just a \u201cmere formality\u201d and the results have been \u201cpredetermined.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI have number 138 as my candidate, Mr. Johny Aryeetey who is vying for the presidency of the GJA, yet if you check with any other polling agent it has at number 138 as his Excellency John Dramani Mahama who is a member of the GJA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He added that \u201ceven if my candidate is allowed to vote, it just goes to fuel the suspicion that most candidates in this year\u2019s election had that this year\u2019s GJA election is a mere formality, an that some people have been predetermined to come out victorious\u2026.We have pinpointed a lot of issues to the Electoral Committee that we are uncomfortable with, and believe that the incumbent executives are skewing certain things to their advantage, but they threw us out.\u201d<\/p>\n Elections are currently ongoing at various polling stations across the country to elect new executives to lead the Association.<\/p>\n The GJA election was initially supposed to be held in March, 2017, but was postponed because of some unresolved disputes.<\/p>\n A presidential aspirant, Lloyd Evans was initially disqualified but he challenged it in court and eventually won.<\/p>\n A total of 656 media personnel are expected to cast their votes nationwide to elect the leaders to man the affairs of the Association.<\/p>\n There are three aspirants vying for the GJA presidential slot. But many believe the race is between the incumbent\u2014Roland Affail Monney and Lloyd Evans.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nutor Bibini Nutor, the campaign manager of Johnny Aryeetey, a presidential aspirant in the ongoing Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has challenged the electoral processes, alleging manipulation by the incumbent executives. He said the elections cannot be considered to be free and fair as the incumbent executives, led by President Affail Monney, are skewing the processes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[212,3,2370],"yoast_head":"\n