{"id":652387,"date":"2019-07-08T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>JohnsonAsiedu Nketia\u00a0\u2013\u00a0General\u00a0Secretary\u00a0of\u00a0NDC<\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opposition National Democratic\nCongress (NDC) is scheduled to hold its Parliamentary primaries on August 24,\n2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Secretary of the NDC, "},"modified":"2019-07-08T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:09:37","slug":"ndc-parliamentary-primaries-set-for-august-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/08\/ndc-parliamentary-primaries-set-for-august-24\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Parliamentary Primaries Set For August 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>JohnsonAsiedu Nketia\u00a0\u2013\u00a0General\u00a0Secretary\u00a0of\u00a0NDC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The opposition National Democratic<br \/>\nCongress (NDC) is scheduled to hold its Parliamentary primaries on August 24,<br \/>\n2019.<\/p>\n<p>General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson<br \/>\nAsiedu Nketia, made the announcement at a press conference last week in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, from July 10 to 12, the<br \/>\nNDC would open nominations to all aspirants who want to contest in all the constituencies\u2019<br \/>\nparty offices with the exception of Afram plains where they would pick their<br \/>\nnomination forms from the General Secretary of the party at the party<br \/>\nheadquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>He said women and People Living with<br \/>\nDisability have been given a special dispensation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, they have been allowed<br \/>\nto pay half of the original amount for the filing of nominations forms of only<br \/>\nGh\u00a2 12,500. <\/p>\n<p>On the guidelines for the election, he<br \/>\nrevealed that aspirants should satisfy the constitutional<br \/>\nrequirement which qualifies one to be a Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The General Secretary said aspirant should also satisfy the requirements of the party, adding that no one will be disqualified based on normal procedural errors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JohnsonAsiedu Nketia\u00a0\u2013\u00a0General\u00a0Secretary\u00a0of\u00a0NDC The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is scheduled to hold its Parliamentary primaries on August 24, 2019. General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, made the announcement at a press conference last week in Accra. According to him, from July 10 to 12, the NDC would open nominations to all aspirants who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652387","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 Parliamentary Primaries Set For August 24 - 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\/07\/08\/ndc-parliamentary-primaries-set-for-august-24\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NDC Parliamentary Primaries Set For August 24 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"JohnsonAsiedu Nketia\u00a0\u2013\u00a0General\u00a0Secretary\u00a0of\u00a0NDC The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is scheduled to hold its Parliamentary primaries on August 24, 2019. 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