{"id":233389,"date":"2024-10-16T10:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/16\/declare-seats-occupied-by-mps-running-independent-vacant-haruna-iddrisu-petitions-bagbin\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:02:16","slug":"declare-seats-occupied-by-mps-running-independent-vacant-haruna-iddrisu-petitions-bagbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/16\/declare-seats-occupied-by-mps-running-independent-vacant-haruna-iddrisu-petitions-bagbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Declare seats occupied by MPs running independent vacant \u2013 Haruna Iddrisu petitions Bagbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Haruna Iddrisu<br \/>\nThe Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has received a petition from Haruna Iddrisu, the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, requesting the declaration of four parliamentary seats as vacant.<br \/>\nThe constituencies in question are Agona West, Suhum, Amenfi Central, and Fomena.<br \/>\nThis information was revealed by Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Majority Leader and MP for Effutu, during a session in Parliament on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.<br \/>\nHe noted that he became aware of the petition after receiving<\/p>\n<p><button><span>See More<!-- --> <\/span><span>\u276f<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haruna Iddrisu The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has received a petition from Haruna Iddrisu, the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, requesting the declaration of four parliamentary seats as vacant. The constituencies in question are Agona West, Suhum, Amenfi Central, and Fomena. This information was revealed by Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Majority Leader and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Declare seats occupied by MPs running independent vacant \u2013 Haruna Iddrisu petitions Bagbin - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/16\/declare-seats-occupied-by-mps-running-independent-vacant-haruna-iddrisu-petitions-bagbin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Declare seats occupied by MPs running independent vacant \u2013 Haruna Iddrisu petitions Bagbin - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Haruna Iddrisu The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has received a petition from Haruna Iddrisu, the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, requesting the declaration of four parliamentary seats as vacant. 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