{"id":385112,"date":"2017-12-21T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=385112"},"modified":"2017-12-21T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:05:34","slug":"ellembele-npp-supporters-besiege-npp-hq-over-party-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/ellembele-npp-supporters-besiege-npp-hq-over-party-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellembelle NPP supporters besiege NPP HQ over party register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some persons believed to be members of the governing New Patriotic Party in the Ellembelle Constituency of the Western Region, have besieged the party\u2019s headquarters in Accra, demanding that their National Executives furnish them with their original polling station register.<\/p>\n<p>The governing party is expected to go to the polls in January 2018, to elect polling station executives. As part of that, all party members are to have their names captured on the party\u2019s register by December 25, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-385117 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-8.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the livid NPP members, their constituency\u2019s party chairman, Samuel Akenya, has refused to make available the original registers to the 16 polling station officers.<\/p>\n<p>They claimed the Constituency Chairman has instead made available other forms for the registration process which he will collate all registered names himself.<\/p>\n<p>In the view of the constituents, this is a ploy to manipulate the election of party executives at the constituency level, through to the national level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-385116 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-7.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> at the NPP headquarters today, Thursday, the Communications Director for the group, Felix Dickson, said directives from the police and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to Samuel Akenya to release the original register, have yielded no results hence their action.<\/p>\n<p>The group has been at the NPP headquarters since 5:00am, and is yet to meet any national party executive to whom, they can present their petition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-385115 \" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-6.jpg 440w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nppp-ellembelle-members-in-accra-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Controversial\u2019 NPP constitutional amendment proposals withdrawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The leadership of NPP over the weekend shot down some three <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/17\/controversial-npp-constitutional-amendment-proposals-withdrawn\/\"><strong>\u2018controversial\u2019 proposals<\/strong><\/a><\/span> submitted for amendment to the party&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo, while addressing party delegates at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region at the party&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/17\/npps-extraordinary-national-delegates-conference-in-pictures\/\"><strong>Extraordinary National Delegates\u2019 Conference<\/strong><\/a><\/span> said some of the proposed amendments \u201cwill be a disaster\u201d if adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals included suggestions for Members of Parliament to appoint constituency executives, party members with dual citizenship to be disqualified from contesting for any party position and for the flagbearer of the party to be considered as the leader of the party<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marie Franz Fordjoe\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some persons believed to be members of the governing New Patriotic Party in the Ellembelle Constituency of the Western Region, have besieged the party\u2019s headquarters in Accra, demanding that their National Executives furnish them with their original polling station register. 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