{"id":158708,"date":"2014-02-05T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voltexshipping.com\/ghanamma\/poverty-stricken-npp-reschedule-march-congress\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:00:12","slug":"poverty-stricken-npp-reschedule-march-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/02\/05\/poverty-stricken-npp-reschedule-march-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Stricken NPP Reschedule March Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.peacefmonline.com\/photos\/news\/201402\/908289033_986689.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:1px solid #999; padding:1px; margin-top:2px;\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">The New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ghana\u2019s biggest opposition party, has rescheduled its impending National Delegates Congress to a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress to elect National Executives, was planned to take place on March 1, 2014. But the National Council of the party at a meeting on Tuesday moved the date to April 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Council, has also agreed on a centralised Congress to be held in Tamale in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n<p>NPP\u2019s National Executives, had indicated that a centralised election would cost the party an amount of 1.2 million Ghana cedis, while a decentralised one would only cost a little over 150,000 Ghana cedis. The executives chose the latter, but was hit by fierce resistance, especially from Members of Parliament (MP).<\/p>\n<p>National Chairman, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, explained that the party was not in a sound financial state to organize a centralised election.<\/p>\n<p>But the MPs say their checks show that a centralized election will cost 686,000 Ghana cedis for the about 5600 delegates expected to participate in the Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Though those pushing for a centralised Congress have their way, it is not clear how much it is going to cost the party, Joy News\u2019 Anny Osabutey reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, sources say all financial matters concerning the national election have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ghana\u2019s biggest opposition party, has rescheduled its impending National Delegates Congress to a later date.The Congress to elect National Executives, was planned to take place on March 1, 2014. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}