{"id":2211,"date":"2019-08-29T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:46:33","slug":"pictures-defeated-ndc-mp-goes-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/pictures-defeated-ndc-mp-goes-independent","title":{"rendered":"[PICTURES]: Defeated \u2018NDC MP\u2019 goes independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>A defeated former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tain Constituency in the Bono East Region, Hon Kwasi Agyemang Gyan Tutu has announced his decision to contest as an independent parliamentary candidate.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Posters of the candidate have already started flooding the area barely a week after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Primaries in the area in which he lost to one Sulemena Adama.<\/p>\n<p>The former MP polled 507 votes representing 47.34% as against the winner who polled 564 votes representing 52.66% but he is accusing some unseen hands within the party of orchestrating his defeat and is therefore contesting as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to him, revealed to\u00a0Africa-press.com\/ghana\/\u00a0that the embittered former lawmaker believes General Secretary of the NDC, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia sponsored a candidate against him and masterminded his defeat.<\/p>\n<p>This comes barely a day after another failed Parliamentary aspirant of the NDC in the Ashaiman Constituency of the Greater Accra Region also announced his decision to go independent.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Segbene Xenodzi was on August 19, 2019 prevented from filing his nomination papers to contest the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the area Ernest Henry Norgbey.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he and his members moved to the NDC Constituency Office at 2pm on August 19, 2019 and stayed there till about 3:40pm and met an empty office with no one around to receive his nomination forms.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Party had given up to 5pm for filing and nobody is at the office.<\/p>\n<p>They then moved to the Party Chairman\u2019s Office where it was revealed that the nominations forms had expired, hence Segbene cannot be allowed to file.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2212\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/Picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/Picture.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/Picture-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/Picture-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2213\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/4d6bcfe7-070f-4ac7-9857-139935fbf0e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/4d6bcfe7-070f-4ac7-9857-139935fbf0e2.jpg 622w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/4d6bcfe7-070f-4ac7-9857-139935fbf0e2-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A defeated former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tain Constituency in the Bono East Region, Hon Kwasi Agyemang Gyan Tutu has announced his decision to contest as an independent parliamentary candidate. 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