{"id":1209254,"date":"2022-09-22T16:36:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/ndc-extends-deadline-for-picking-nominations-for-constituency-elections-to-saturday\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:36:50","slug":"ndc-extends-deadline-for-picking-nominations-for-constituency-elections-to-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/ndc-extends-deadline-for-picking-nominations-for-constituency-elections-to-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC extends deadline for picking nominations for constituency elections to Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has extended the deadline for the picking of nomination forms for its constituency elections.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise which ended on Wednesday, September 1, saw party folk agitated over failure to pick forms.<\/p>\n<p>Due to this, the party in a press statement on Thursday, under the signature of its General Secretary, John Asiedu Nketiah said the exercise has been extended to Saturday, September 24.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"813\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-22-at-1.59.28-PM-813x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"NDC extends deadline for picking nominations for constituency elections to Saturday\" class=\"wp-image-10032175482 lazy\"  data- title=\"NDC extends deadline for picking nominations for constituency elections to Saturday\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>According to the said release, the decision was Functional Executive Committee of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Functional Executive Committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has taken notice of widespread concerns from various parts of the country over the picking of nomination forms for the upcoming Constituency elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese concerns have centred around the network and other challenges relative to the download of forms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of this, FEC has, effective today, extended the deadline for picking of nomination forms by an additional two days, to end on Saturday, 24th September 2022. All other processes on the approved internal election\u2019s timetable of the party remain unchanged,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It has thus asked all executives to adhere to the directive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Constituency Secretariats of the party should take note of this directive and comply accordingly,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has extended the deadline for the picking of nomination forms for its constituency elections. The exercise which ended on Wednesday, September 1, saw party folk agitated over failure to pick forms. Due to this, the party in a press statement on Thursday, under the signature of its General Secretary, John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209254","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=1209254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}