{"id":999254,"date":"2022-02-21T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/chairman-wontumi-denies-selling-forms\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:11:35","slug":"chairman-wontumi-denies-selling-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/chairman-wontumi-denies-selling-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairman Wontumi denies selling forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/059A9764-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Wontumi\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chairman Wontumi, NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has denied selling forms at the various constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>He insists the nomination forms are given out for free to persons interested in the election of NPP\u2019s polling station executives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have taken care of the cost of all the forms at every polling station. Party executives can pick the forms at the regional office for free,\u201d he told Nana Kwadwo Jantuah, host of \u2018Kuro Yi Mu Nsem\u2019 show on Nhyira FM.<\/p>\n<p>The distribution of nomination forms has turned chaotic in some constituencies in the region, ahead of the NPP\u2019s election of polling station executives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Kwadaso, some NPP members locked up the constituency chairman on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Asante Akyem South constituency, over 250 polling station executives were allegedly denied forms.<\/p>\n<p>In the Manhyia North constituency, party executives were accused of giving a preferential treatment by selling forms to some party members. <\/p>\n<p>Armed police were dispatched to keep the peace at the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Similar agitations took place at Mampong and Kumawu.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Wuntumi said he has increased the number of forms in each constituency to curb the chaos.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said the date for the polling station election, initially slated for February 19, has been postponed to February 29, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe polling station elections will commence on the 25th\u00a0of February, 2022. Party executives can pick forms from the regional office. The change in date is to help us solve the emerging challenges at the various polling stations,\u201d said the NPP Regional Chairman.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1219846030&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7_1rtXr03X8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-on-One with kwabena Kwabena | Musician | Mahyease on Adom TV (9-2-21)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7_1rtXr03X8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman Wontumi, NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has denied selling forms at the various constituencies. He insists the nomination forms are given out for free to persons interested in the election of NPP\u2019s polling station executives. \u201cI have taken care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999254","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\/999254","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=999254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}