{"id":1231671,"date":"2022-10-22T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/22\/ashaiman-delegates-want-elections-postponed\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T17:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T17:45:51","slug":"ashaiman-delegates-want-elections-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/22\/ashaiman-delegates-want-elections-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashaiman delegates want elections postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There\u2019s growing agitation in the Ashiaman constituency as National Democratic Congress delegates are calling for the postponement of their internal elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to the delegates, it will be difficult for the over 3000 delegates to vote considering the fact that, there\u2019s no lighting system in place to illuminate the area when it\u2019s time for counting of ballots deep into the night.<\/p>\n<p>Citi News can confirm that, ballot papers are yet to arrive at the voting centre as of 12:44pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for the Ashiaman constituency, Ernest Norgbey told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, \u201dyes the process has delayed unduly, and some delegates are agitated, but there will be financial implications if the election is postponed to another day hence the need to conduct the election today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we want to exercise patience and see how best the issue can be rectified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LYCdoAEo4Ow\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NDC elections: All 49 aspirants in Eastern Region cleared to contest | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LYCdoAEo4Ow?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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s growing agitation in the Ashiaman constituency as National Democratic Congress delegates are calling for the postponement of their internal elections. According to the delegates, it will be difficult for the over 3000 delegates to vote considering the fact that, there\u2019s no lighting system in place to illuminate the area when it\u2019s time for counting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231671","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\/1231671","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=1231671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}