{"id":1122879,"date":"2022-06-15T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/rains-delay-filing-of-nominations-on-deadline-day\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:29:44","slug":"rains-delay-filing-of-nominations-on-deadline-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/rains-delay-filing-of-nominations-on-deadline-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Rains delay filing of nominations on deadline day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Accra, June 15, GNA &#8211; Wednesday morning\u2019s downpour has delayed the filing of nomination forms by national executive aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for close to two hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1.21501896.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The filing of nomination forms was scheduled to commence at 0900 hours, but as of 10:45 hours, none of the aspirants had come to the Party office to file their forms due to the rain.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The exercise commenced on Monday, June 13, 2022 and will close at exactly 5pm today, June 15, 2022.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">A total 50 aspirants picked nominations forms last week to contest various positions in the Party &#8211; Chairman, Vice Chairman, General Secretary, Deputy General Secretary, Organiser, Youth Organiser, Women&#8217;s Organiser, Treasurer, and Nasara Coordinator.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">As of the close of business on Tuesday, June, 13, 2022, less than 20 aspirants had filed their nomination forms, representing less than half of the expected number.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Many more aspirants,  the incumbent General Secretary, Mr John Boadu, are expected to file their forms as the deadline nears.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Supporters of some aspirants who arrived at the Party office ahead of their preferred candidate are seeking shelter under copies, stores and other places in anticipation that the rain would subside sooner.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Seven NPP stalwarts are seeking to succeed the incumbent Chairman, Freddie Blay, who has hanged his boots.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The aspirants are: Stephen Ayesu Ntim, Stephen Asamoah Boateng, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, Joseph Ayikoi Otoo, Sammy Crabbe, Akwasi Osei-Adjei, and George Kwabena Abankwah-Yeboah.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The Party is expected to vet all the aspirants from June 17 to June 19, 2022, ahead of the National Executive Elections, scheduled to take place at the Accra Sports Stadium from July 15 to 17, 2022.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra, June 15, GNA &#8211; Wednesday morning\u2019s downpour has delayed the filing of nomination forms by national executive aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for close to two hours. The filing of nomination forms was scheduled to commence at 0900 hours, but as of 10:45 hours, none of the aspirants had come to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[473,361,3676,5922,5067,2371],"class_list":["post-1122879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-day","tag-deadline","tag-delay","tag-filing","tag-nominations","tag-rains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122879","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=1122879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}