{"id":43588,"date":"2014-09-01T06:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=43588"},"modified":"2014-09-01T07:21:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:21:51","slug":"october-congresswont-be-cancelled-kwabena-agyepong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/october-congresswont-be-cancelled-kwabena-agyepong\/","title":{"rendered":"October congress won’t be cancelled – Kwabena Agyepong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyepong has said the party will not cancel its October congress to elect a flagbearer despite pressure from supporters to abandon the original plan.<\/p>\n

This follows numerous calls from major regional blocks of the party <\/span><\/a><\/span>on the leadership to crown the winner of Sunday\u2019s Super Delegates Congress Nana Akufo-Addo as the presidential candidate without any contest.<\/p>\n

The special congress reduced the number of presidential hopefuls from seven to five as stipulated in the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

Two-time presidential candidate of the party, Nana Akufo-Addo emerged the winner with about 81% of the total valid votes cast.<\/p>\n

Some members of the party and some political pundits in Ghana say there is no need for the final congress to take place due to Nana Addo\u2019s resounding victory.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s strong constituency in the Diaspora has also given indications it will officially join forces to put pressure on the party\u2019s leadership to let Nana Akufo-Addo stand unopposed.<\/p>\n

But Kwabena Agyepong in an interview with Citi News maintained that the October congress will come off as scheduled according to the requirements of their constitution.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe respect our constitution. Our constitution dictates to us that this was the first stage and now we have the five candidates that will go on to the second stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, it is imperative to work towards the dictates of the party\u2019s constitution; therefore, “every party delegate must be given the chance to vote for his or preferred candidate.<\/p>\n

Agyepong insisted that the dictates of the constitution must be respected \u201cand it dictated to us that we have a two-stage process; we\u2019ve finished with the first stage and now, we are now going to the second stage and the rest we will leave it to the candidates themselves,” he added.<\/p>\n

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By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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