{"id":1167842,"date":"2022-08-05T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/npp-cautions-executives-against-presidential-mp-hopefuls\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:34:08","slug":"npp-cautions-executives-against-presidential-mp-hopefuls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/npp-cautions-executives-against-presidential-mp-hopefuls\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP cautions executives against  presidential, MP hopefuls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The governing New Patriotic Party has cautioned its executives against  flagbearer and Member of Parliament hopefuls within the party.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP in a statement said this directive was \u201cto avert the menace of internal Party wrangling, and factionalism, which usually arises when Party executives openly declare support for aspirants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party noted that this is an issue that has resulted in electoral misfortune in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The party was responding to a video in circulation, in which Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Party, openly endorsed one of the party\u2019s presidential hopefuls.<\/p>\n<p>The party has said it has since engaged Mr. Boasiako on the need for officers of the party, at all levels, to desist from such conduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn obedience to the Party\u2019s Constitution and the Code of Conduct, herein, all National, Regional, and Constituency Executives of the Party are once again cautioned to refrain from either  or openly campaigning for any presidential or parliamentary aspirant,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Until nominations are opened, the party cautioned that \u201call prospective presidential and parliamentary aspirants are to desist from all forms of campaign activities  mounting of billboards and holding meetings with Party executives as that would be in breach of the Code of Conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It further warned that \u201cfailure to comply with this directive may lead to huge consequences and sanctions against such offending officer, member or prospective aspirant in line with the grievance procedures stipulated in the Code of Conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LuNIIPlsE2Q\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kwabena Agyepong speaks his time as NPP general secretary, announces interest in NPP Flagbearership\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LuNIIPlsE2Q?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governing New Patriotic Party has cautioned its executives against flagbearer and Member of Parliament hopefuls within the party. The NPP in a statement said this directive was \u201cto avert the menace of internal Party wrangling, and factionalism, which usually arises when Party executives openly declare support for aspirants.\u201d The party noted that this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1102119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2252,3017,14929,7025,88],"class_list":["post-1167842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-cautions","tag-executives","tag-hopefuls","tag-npp","tag-presidential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167842","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=1167842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}