{"id":714081,"date":"2019-10-01T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/01\/npp-congratulates-elected-candidates\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:07:27","slug":"npp-congratulates-elected-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/01\/npp-congratulates-elected-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP Congratulates Elected Candidates &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>John Boadu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has congratulated all its newly<br \/>\nelected parliamentary candidates.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, September 28, 2019, the party held parliamentary<br \/>\nprimaries in its 106 orphan constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>The orphan constituencies are those in which the party has no<br \/>\nsitting Members of Parliament (MP).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by its General Secretary, John Boadu,<br \/>\nNPP also thanked \u201ccandidates who were unsuccessful for the roles they<br \/>\nplayed in achieving this great feat for the elephant family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that \u201cthe NPP is pleased to extend<br \/>\ngratitude and appreciation to the rank and file of the party for a successful<br \/>\nextraordinary constituency delegates\u2019 conference held on Saturday, September<br \/>\n28, 2019, in all the constituencies where the party has no sitting MP to<br \/>\nselect\/elect the party\u2019s parliamentary candidates for the 2020 General<br \/>\nElections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It stated \u201cwe equally thank the media, the police and<br \/>\nofficials of the electoral commission of Ghana and indeed all persons who have,<br \/>\nin diverse ways, supported the party in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conference (parliamentary primaries), which came<br \/>\noff in all the orphan constituencies of the party with the exception of a few,<br \/>\nwas extremely successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party however learnt with shock, the sudden passing<br \/>\nof a delegate in the Ablekuma South Constituency, by name, Nii Otu Ankra, who<br \/>\ncollapsed few minutes after voting and was rushed to the hospital where<br \/>\nunfortunately, he was pronounced dead on arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party is most saddened by this development and<br \/>\ncommiserates with the bereaved family and the Ablekuma South Constituency<br \/>\nparty, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that \u201cfinally, it is the expectation of the party that all activists and sympathisers would throw their unflinching weight and support behind the party\u2019s parliamentary candidates in these orphan constituencies and work assiduously towards snatching the respective parliamentary seats from the NDC \u2013 to enhance the NPP\u2019s chances of retaining power in 2020 for the love of God, country and party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boadu The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has congratulated all its newly elected parliamentary candidates. On Saturday, September 28, 2019, the party held parliamentary primaries in its 106 orphan constituencies. The orphan constituencies are those in which the party has no sitting Members of Parliament (MP). In a statement issued by its General Secretary, John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714081","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>NPP Congratulates Elected 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\/2019\/10\/01\/npp-congratulates-elected-candidates\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NPP Congratulates Elected Candidates - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"John Boadu The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has congratulated all its newly elected parliamentary candidates. 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