{"id":587106,"date":"2019-01-22T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p>Sa<strong>muel Ofosu Ampofo, NDC Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)\nhas set a new date for its presidential primary after a series of postponements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party has settled on February 23,"},"modified":"2019-01-22T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:27:25","slug":"ndc-primary-back-on-dailyguide-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/22\/ndc-primary-back-on-dailyguide-network\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Primary Back On &#8211; DailyGuide Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sa<strong>muel Ofosu Ampofo, NDC Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)<br \/>\nhas set a new date for its presidential primary after a series of postponements.<\/p>\n<p>The party has settled on February 23, 2019 for<br \/>\nthe polls, information gathered by <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> yesterday indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the presidential primary was slated for<br \/>\nDecember 7, 2018 but could not take place as planned because the party\u2019s<br \/>\nleadership claimed the time between NDC\u2019s congress and the presidential primary<br \/>\nwas too short.<\/p>\n<p>The election was later scheduled for January 26,<br \/>\n2019, but again it could not take place because two NDC members \u2013 James Kabu Nartey and Abdallah Issah- filed a suit against the party in<br \/>\nDecember 2018. <\/p>\n<p>They<br \/>\nchallenged the rules and guidelines set by the party for the presidential<br \/>\nprimary scheduled for January 26, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Last<br \/>\nweek, Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Peter Boamah Otokunor told <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE <\/em><\/strong>that the<br \/>\nparty was seeking an out-of-court settlement after which it would announce a<br \/>\nnew date for the polls.<\/p>\n<p>However, when this paper contacted him yesterday,<br \/>\nhe could not comment on the matter, claiming he was in a meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY<br \/>\nGUIDE\u2019s<\/strong> sources<br \/>\nhave indicated that the election would come off on the last Saturday of next month.<\/p>\n<p>The party is expected to vet seven aspirants who want to lead the NDC into the 2020 general elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Melvin Tarlue <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, NDC Chairman The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has set a new date for its presidential primary after a series of postponements. The party has settled on February 23, 2019 for the polls, information gathered by DAILY GUIDE yesterday indicated. Initially, the presidential primary was slated for December 7, 2018 but could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NDC Primary Back On - DailyGuide Network - 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\/2019\/01\/22\/ndc-primary-back-on-dailyguide-network\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NDC Primary Back On - DailyGuide Network - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, NDC Chairman The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has set a new date for its presidential primary after a series of postponements. 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