{"id":747921,"date":"2019-11-20T01:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T01:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:35:51","slug":"vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote &#8216;Yes&#8217; on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Wednesday, 20 November 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>peacefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-11-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/62531880.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer\" title=\"Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer\" width=\"295\" height=\"150\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has warned of dire repercussions for the country&#8217;s fledgeling democracy should the citizenry opt to go for a &#8216;Yes&#8217; choice in next month&#8217;s referendum.<\/p>\n<p>He has, therefore, urged Ghanaians to vote &#8216;NO&#8217; in the upcoming referendum to maintain the unity in the country in general, and in the assembly electoral areas, in particular.<\/p>\n<p>The two leading political parties in the country are at each other&#8217;s throat over whether Ghanaians should go for a &#8216;No&#8217; or &#8216;Yes&#8217; vote in the upcoming referendum that could introduce multi-party sponsorship of candidates at the local level provided the electorate votes &#8216;YES&#8217; on December 17.<\/p>\n<p>Debunking claims that members of the opposition party have deliberately taken an entrenched position because the ruling party is on the &#8216;YES&#8217; side, he strongly insisted that he has over a hundred and more reasons why the election of MMDCE&#8217;s should not be made partisan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vote &#8216;YES&#8217; during the upcoming referendum and see Ghana creating an NDC\/NPP market and communal labour days,&#8221; Sammy Gyamfi warned.<\/p>\n<p>He dared on UTV&#8217;s &#8216;Adekye Nsroma&#8217; political panel discussion segment that if the &#8216;Yes&#8217; carries the day, everything in the country will eventually be politicized. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I bet you and it is the truth that nothing will be left out in this country not being tagged with party colours should &#8216;YES&#8217; win the December 17 elections,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC&#8217;s National Communications Officer further accused the President, Nana Akufo-Addo and members of his party of &#8220;seeking to destroy Ghana, through their call for the referendum on a practice that has existed for the past 47 years and counting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of Wednesday, 20 November 2019 Source: peacefmonline.com 2019-11-20 Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has warned of dire repercussions for the country&#8217;s fledgeling democracy should the citizenry opt to go for a &#8216;Yes&#8217; choice in next month&#8217;s referendum. He has, therefore, urged Ghanaians to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vote &#039;Yes&#039; on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana - 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\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vote &#039;Yes&#039; on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Politics of Wednesday, 20 November 2019 Source: peacefmonline.com 2019-11-20 Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has warned of dire repercussions for the country&#8217;s fledgeling democracy should the citizenry opt to go for a &#8216;Yes&#8217; choice in next month&#8217;s referendum. He has, therefore, urged Ghanaians to [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/62531880.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"headline\":\"Vote &#8216;Yes&#8217; on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-20T01:35:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":299,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/62531880.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Local News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/\",\"name\":\"Vote 'Yes' on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/62531880.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-20T01:35:51+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/20\\\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/62531880.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/62531880.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":305},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Vote 'Yes' on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Vote 'Yes' on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Politics of Wednesday, 20 November 2019 Source: peacefmonline.com 2019-11-20 Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has warned of dire repercussions for the country&#8217;s fledgeling democracy should the citizenry opt to go for a &#8216;Yes&#8217; choice in next month&#8217;s referendum. He has, therefore, urged Ghanaians to [&hellip;]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/62531880.jpg","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/"},"author":{"name":"Ghana News","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036"},"headline":"Vote &#8216;Yes&#8217; on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana","datePublished":"2019-11-20T01:35:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/"},"wordCount":299,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/62531880.jpg","articleSection":["Local News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/","name":"Vote 'Yes' on December 17 referendum and divide Ghana - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/62531880.jpg","datePublished":"2019-11-20T01:35:51+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/20\/vote-yes-on-december-17-referendum-and-divide-ghana\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/62531880.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/62531880.jpg","width":600,"height":305},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}