{"id":1144112,"date":"2022-07-07T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/ppp-denies-reports-of-1000-defections-to-ndc-in-upper-west\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:51:15","slug":"ppp-denies-reports-of-1000-defections-to-ndc-in-upper-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/ppp-denies-reports-of-1000-defections-to-ndc-in-upper-west\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP denies reports of 1,000 defections to NDC in Upper West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP) has denied reports that about 1,000 of its members in the Upper West Region have defected to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p>According to the leadership of the party, the only person who has defected to the NDC is the former Chairman of the PPP for Wa Central.<\/p>\n<p>The party removed him following the performance of the party in the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Director of Communications for the PPP, Felix Mantey, said he was surprised by the claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are the 1,000 people coming from?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mantey said the chairman doesn\u2019t even know the total number of votes in the 2020 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe even concocted lies about me that I, as a communication director, went to Wa East to ask the NDC people to accept me\u2026 he concocted so many lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have problems with defections to the NDC, but don\u2019t make it like the entire membership of the PPP has joined the NDC, which is a palpable lie,\u201d Mr. Mantey added.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"TZmA5qT1hLg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Over 200 NDC supporters in Bongo defect to NPP | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZmA5qT1hLg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP) has denied reports that about 1,000 of its members in the Upper West Region have defected to the National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to the leadership of the party, the only person who has defected to the NDC is the former Chairman of the PPP for Wa Central. The party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[19934,66,680,2233,5182,3839,916],"class_list":["post-1144112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-defections","tag-denies","tag-ndc","tag-ppp","tag-reports","tag-upper","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144112","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=1144112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}