{"id":46306,"date":"2025-09-07T05:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=46306"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:32:58","slug":"prof-alidu-seidu-wins-tamale-central-ndc-parliamentary-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/09\/07\/prof-alidu-seidu-wins-tamale-central-ndc-parliamentary-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Alidu Seidu wins Tamale Central NDC Parliamentary Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana,\u00a0<strong>Prof. Alidu Mahama Seidu<\/strong>, has won the Tamale Central parliamentary primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He polled\u00a0<strong>840 votes<\/strong>\u00a0to secure victory in the keenly contested race, which was held to elect a successor following the tragic death of the late MP,\u00a0<strong>Alhaji Murtala Muhammed<\/strong>, who died in a helicopter crash along with seven others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The primary, organised at the&nbsp;<strong>Alhaji Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium<\/strong>, attracted&nbsp;<strong>12 aspirants<\/strong>, including three women, all vying for the opportunity to represent the NDC in the upcoming parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof. Seidu\u2019s decisive win was warmly acknowledged by his competitors, who congratulated him after Electoral Commission officials declared the results, with over 800 ballots cast in his favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana,\u00a0Prof. Alidu Mahama Seidu, has won the Tamale Central parliamentary primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He polled\u00a0840 votes\u00a0to secure victory in the keenly contested race, which was held to elect a successor following the tragic death of the late MP,\u00a0Alhaji Murtala Muhammed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[2508,8642,6693,8193,7234,913,5241,1465,374,192,9390,11884,6411,130,278,281,12010,6200,13301,2381,6988,5238,214,963,10885,5320,594],"class_list":["post-46306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-alhaji","tag-alidu-seidu","tag-congress","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-democratic","tag-died","tag-ec","tag-electoral-commission","tag-ghana","tag-helicopter","tag-helicopter-crash","tag-lecturer","tag-mahama","tag-mp","tag-ndc","tag-ndc-tamale-central-seat","tag-race","tag-results","tag-science","tag-successor","tag-tamale","tag-university","tag-university-of-ghana","tag-victory","tag-women","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46308,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306\/revisions\/46308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}