{"id":1236935,"date":"2022-10-28T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T06:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/annul-ayawaso-west-wuogon-constituency-polls-it-was-rigged\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T06:35:17","slug":"annul-ayawaso-west-wuogon-constituency-polls-it-was-rigged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/annul-ayawaso-west-wuogon-constituency-polls-it-was-rigged\/","title":{"rendered":"Annul Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency polls; it was rigged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Some aggrieved National Democratic Congress (NDC) executives and aspirants in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency have accused the incumbent constituency leadership of the party of conniving with other agencies to rig the just-ended constituency election.<\/p>\n<p>They are pointing accusing fingers at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency chairman, the Electoral Commission, NDC electoral committee and police for bullying their way through the election.<\/p>\n<p>The members claim the elections were conducted in an unfair and unjust manner to enable the current leadership to stay in power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome executives are threatening to withdraw their services, others are threatening to resign from their positions. We will not allow their overwhelming shouts of change to be silenced,\u201d said Joshua Essel, one of the disgruntled aspirants.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference, Joshua Essel assured party members in the constituency that steps will be taken to annul the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs leaders who believe in the rule of law, we have taken action and addressed the appropriate quarters. We seek redress and the total annulment of the elections because it was nothing but fraud. The election was fraught with many irregularities, illegalities and thievery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"CuAZecJ_N38\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NDC Tamale central constituency elections suspended due to absence of electoral commission officials\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CuAZecJ_N38?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>Some aggrieved National Democratic Congress (NDC) executives and aspirants in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency have accused the incumbent constituency leadership of the party of conniving with other agencies to rig the just-ended constituency election. They are pointing accusing fingers at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency chairman, the Electoral Commission, NDC electoral committee and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236935","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\/1236935","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=1236935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}