{"id":1082444,"date":"2022-05-10T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/kadjebi-assembly-fails-to-elect-new-presiding-member\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:54:39","slug":"kadjebi-assembly-fails-to-elect-new-presiding-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/kadjebi-assembly-fails-to-elect-new-presiding-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Kadjebi Assembly fails to elect new Presiding Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Kadjebi (O\/R), May 10, GNA &#8211; The 54-member Kadjebi District Assembly in the Oti Region, has failed to elect a new Presiding Member (PM) after two separate voting exercises.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1.21472676.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">In the first round of the polls, Mr Noah Kwame Wadja a government appointee and contestant, garnered 31 votes out of 54 votes cast while Mr Philip Obornie, Assemblyman for Dodo- Amanfrom North Electoral Area, secured 20 votes with two rejected votes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">By this, neither of the two candidates secured the two-third mandate to be elected.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Justice Odame-Frimpong, the Kadjebi District Electoral Officer said since none had gotten the required number, it called for another polls within ten days starting from the day the first election was held.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The house, therefore, agreed to hold the second round of voting in a desperate move to complete the exercise.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">During the second round of voting, Mr Noah Kwame Wadja, polled 32 votes, representing 59.2 per cent, while his contender polled 21 votes, representing 38.8 per cent.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">By this development, the two candidates still failed to get the two-third mandate to assume the PM position.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Alhassan Sulemana, the Secretary to the Assembly before the polls, appealed to the assembly members to build consensus since the local government system hinges on that.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Wadja, a contestant, urged his colleagues to vote for him to help move the assembly forward because development was a shared responsibility.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Philip Obornie called on the assembly members to vote for him to revive the dormant Area Councils to help generate enough Internally- Generated Fund (IGF) for the development of the district.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The voting exercise would be restaged after 10 days to elect the PM.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kadjebi (O\/R), May 10, GNA &#8211; The 54-member Kadjebi District Assembly in the Oti Region, has failed to elect a new Presiding Member (PM) after two separate voting exercises. In the first round of the polls, Mr Noah Kwame Wadja a government appointee and contestant, garnered 31 votes out of 54 votes cast while Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2786,10487,2250,2115,454,7796],"class_list":["post-1082444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-assembly","tag-elect","tag-fails","tag-kadjebi","tag-member","tag-presiding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}