{"id":32972,"date":"2023-05-08T08:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=32972"},"modified":"2023-05-08T08:14:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:14:01","slug":"mahama-calls-for-unity-ahead-of-ndcs-may-13-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/05\/08\/mahama-calls-for-unity-ahead-of-ndcs-may-13-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Calls For Unity Ahead Of NDC\u2019s May 13 Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of the primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated calls for unity among party supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opposition NDC is expected to hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday, May 13 which will see the party elect parliamentary candidates and a flagbearer to contest on the party\u2019s ticket in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Mr. John Dramani Mahama who is seeking to be re-elected on the ticket of the NDC made these comments at Bimbilla as part of his campaign tour of the Northern Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone has his supporters, there\u2019s no point saying this person supported the winning team, so we will stay aside. All of us are NDC, let\u2019s support each other after the primaries,\u201d Mr. Mahama advised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Mahama who is a one-term former president is seeking to return to power after he was defeated by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the 2016 and 2020 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NDC internal elections: Party determined to emerge united and poised to win 2024 | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7N7ZSwwwjI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated calls for unity among party supporters. The opposition NDC is expected to hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday, May 13 which will see the party elect parliamentary candidates and a flagbearer to contest on the party\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":32974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13052,10387,6693,913,1031,6638,130,281,2807,11973,3805,11377,12524,11957,6348,3954,594],"class_list":["post-32972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akufo","tag-campaign","tag-congress","tag-democratic","tag-john-dramani-mahama","tag-john-mahama","tag-mahama","tag-ndc","tag-northern-region","tag-one","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-ticket","tag-unity","tag-us","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}