{"id":35155,"date":"2023-06-13T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35155"},"modified":"2023-06-13T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:00:13","slug":"ken-kuranchie-sues-over-mahamas-qualification-to-contest-2024-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/13\/ken-kuranchie-sues-over-mahamas-qualification-to-contest-2024-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Kuranchie sues over Mahama\u2019s qualification to contest 2024 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Managing Editor of the Daily Searchlight Kenneth Agyei Kuranchie has sued over former President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s validity to contest in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reliefs he is seeking include, \u201cA declaration that on a true and proper interpretation of Article 66 (1) of the 1992 Constitution the number of years of a presidential term in Ghana is four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of Article 66 (1) and (2) of the 1992 Constitution, a person seeking a second presidential term must be a sitting president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn order directed at [John Mahama] to fully disclose to Parliament the terms of his engagements with Parliament as flagbearer of a political party.\u201d<br>Mr Mahama was recently elected flagbearer of the NDC for the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the NDC\u2019s primaries held on Saturday, May 13, 2023, he swept 297,603 (98.9%) of the total valid votes to become the party\u2019s Presidential Candidate for the 4th time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read full writ below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/writken.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of writken.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-80f89861-b4db-46df-8661-5f22be06f9da\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/writken.pdf\">writken<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/writken.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-80f89861-b4db-46df-8661-5f22be06f9da\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Editor of the Daily Searchlight Kenneth Agyei Kuranchie has sued over former President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s validity to contest in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[9609,192,1031,6638,11812,130,281,1198,3805,11377,7465],"class_list":["post-35155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-1992-constitution","tag-ghana","tag-john-dramani-mahama","tag-john-mahama","tag-ken-kuranchie","tag-mahama","tag-ndc","tag-parliament","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-sued"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}