{"id":413071,"date":"2011-05-01T17:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T17:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/01\/two-npp-constituencies-in-volta-elect-female-candidates\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T17:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T17:59:35","slug":"two-npp-constituencies-in-volta-elect-female-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/two-npp-constituencies-in-volta-elect-female-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Two NPP constituencies in Volta elect female candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/23d6e95b0972_874620.jpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>Hohoe-North and Hohoe-South constituencies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Volta Region, on Saturday April 30 elected two women parliamentary candidates for the 2012 polls.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Janet Emefa Obro-Adibo, was elected by delegates of Hohoe-North and Madam Emma Kartey, 50, who was unopposed, was acclaimed by delegates of Hohoe-South.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Obro-Adibo polled 291 out of 467 votes, representing 52.31 per cent to beat her only contestant, Mr Mallon Anipah, a development consultant, who obtained 176 votes, representing, 37.69 per cent of the votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>There was a rejected ballot, in an election supervised by Mr Kwabena Karikari, Hohoe Municipal Director of the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Obro-Adibo, thanked the delegates for the trust reposed in her adding that her election marked change and victory for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>She called for zeal on the part of NPP supporters, now that the political battle line has been drawn to wrestle the seat from the incumbent National Democratic Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Obro-Adibo called for support from party members to enable NPP to execute its electoral agenda, indicating that the campaign for the 2012 General Election has began.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Anipa pledged total support towards the campaign in the constituency for victory.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Harry Abednego Adzrakor, First Vice Chairman of the NPP Hohoe-North Constituency, congratulated the delegates for the smooth conduct and sense of judgement during the voting.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the NPP for the novelty it was introducing to the election of candidates in the political arena.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Kartey, was acclaimed unopposed as the NPP candidate for Hohoe-South, at a similar event held at Golokwati.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/23d6e95b0972_874620.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hohoe-North and Hohoe-South constituencies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Volta Region, on Saturday April 30 elected two women parliamentary candidates for the 2012 polls. Mrs Janet Emefa Obro-Adibo, was elected by delegates of Hohoe-North and Madam Emma Kartey, 50, who was unopposed, was acclaimed by delegates of Hohoe-South. Mrs Obro-Adibo polled 291 out of 467 votes, representing 52.31 per cent to beat her only contestant, Mr Mallon Anipah, a development consultant, who obtained 176 votes, representing, 37.69 per cent of the votes cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":412816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-413071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two NPP constituencies in Volta elect female candidates - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/two-npp-constituencies-in-volta-elect-female-candidates\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Two NPP constituencies in Volta elect female candidates - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Hohoe-North and Hohoe-South constituencies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Volta Region, on Saturday April 30 elected two women parliamentary candidates for the 2012 polls. 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