{"id":404394,"date":"2018-02-26T06:38:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T06:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404394"},"modified":"2018-02-26T08:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T08:35:28","slug":"npp-meets-address-legal-challenges-constituency-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/npp-meets-address-legal-challenges-constituency-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP meets to address legal challenges over constituency elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party [NPP], Nana Obiri Boahen, has told <strong>Citi News <\/strong>that the party\u2019s leadership will meet today [Monday], to address all the legal issues that have plagued the party\u2019s constituency elections across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The constituency elections, which are expected to end on Tuesday, February 27, have seen some aggrieved parties take legal action against individuals, whiles others are challenging some of the processes leading to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;L3E1iXy4O2H0HONjJ4JPPr2TEH0hAmgG&#8221;]In constituencies such as Cape Coast South, Suame, Ahafo-Ano South among others, the elections were halted by court injunctions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>,\u00a0the Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Nana Obiri Boahen, said the party would prefer to settle all legal issues out of court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to resolve most of these problems. Some of these injunctions have been served to us at the headquarters. We will be able to resolve them. If it is a matter of settling it out of court, we are competent and capable of doing that. If it is a matter of fighting it in court, we are able to do that. From Monday, the national leadership will meet and take a look at most of the issues before court and we will find the way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is interested in litigation, but where it is highly impossible and practically improbable to settle the matters out of court, the only option is to go to court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for security reasons, five constituencies in the Northern Region were isolated from the nationwide constituency elections which started on Saturday February 24, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The constituencies are Yunyoo, Bimbila, Daboya\/Mankarigu, Nalerigu\/Gambaga and Karaga, which were identified as political hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party [NPP], Nana Obiri Boahen, has told Citi News that the party\u2019s leadership will meet today [Monday], to address all the legal issues that have plagued the party\u2019s constituency elections across the country. 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