{"id":144438,"date":"2024-01-28T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/28\/two-incumbent-mps-win-primaries-in-northern-region\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:06:32","slug":"two-incumbent-mps-win-primaries-in-northern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/28\/two-incumbent-mps-win-primaries-in-northern-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Two incumbent MPs win primaries in Northern Region\u202f\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tamale, Jan 27, GNA \u2013 Alhaji Hardi Tuferu and Alhaji Musah Abdul-Aziz Ayaba, Members of Parliament for Nanton and Mion constituencies, respectively, in the Northern Region emerged victorious in the New Patriotic Party\u2019s parliamentary primaries held on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u202f \u202f \u202fAt Nanton, Alhaji Tuferu polled 220 votes to beat his only challenger, Alhaji Kamaldeen Abdulai, Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Jeddah.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u202f \u202f \u202fAt Mion, Alhaji Ayaba polled 344 votes to beat his only contender, Mr Musah Superior, a Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, who polled 132 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u202f \u202f \u202fAt the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency in the Savannah Region, Mr Samuel Tika Yeyu, a Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Minerals Commission, polled 211 votes to beat the incumbent MP and Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Mahama Asei Seini, who polled 196 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamale, Jan 27, GNA \u2013 Alhaji Hardi Tuferu and Alhaji Musah Abdul-Aziz Ayaba, Members of Parliament for Nanton and Mion constituencies, respectively, in the Northern Region emerged victorious in the New Patriotic Party\u2019s parliamentary primaries held on Saturday.\u00a0 \u202f \u202f \u202fAt Nanton, Alhaji Tuferu polled 220 votes to beat his only challenger, Alhaji Kamaldeen Abdulai, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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