{"id":2406,"date":"2019-09-01T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2019-09-01T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:00:15","slug":"former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91","title":{"rendered":"Former Energy Minister sweeps Ellembelle NDC Primaries by 91%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah wins NDC primaries for Ellembelle constituency<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incumbent Member of Parliament for the Ellembelle Constituency, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has won the Ellembelle NDC primaries by a landslide victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Former Minister of Energy under the erstwhile Mahama administration polled 993 votes against his only competitor, Alleah Mieza-Mea who managed just 99 votes out of total vote cast of 1,095.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Armah-Kofi Buah was given an overwhelming endorsement by the NDC delegates in the constituency\u00a0as he seeks to represent Ellembelle for the fourth time in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Ellembelle was one of two constituencies in the Western Region that had the parliamentary primaries put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Primaries in other constituencies were put on hold for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The party subsequently announced that\u00a0four constituencies\u00a0were to hold their primaries on Saturday, August 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>They included Assin Central, Mfantsiman, Fanteakwa North and Ellembelle constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ellembelle constituency, this was due to an unresolved petition against an aspirant, Mieza Mea Alleah.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mea Alleah was accused of forging signatures on his nomination form.<\/p>\n<p>But the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the party cleared him to contest.<\/p>\n<p>In his victory speech, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah thanked the delegates for the high level of confidence reposed in him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my fourth time and once again the delegates have remained faithful. The delegates have made the right decision. I am greatly humbled by this overwhelming endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cour goal is one and that is to continue to make Ellembelle no-go area for the NPP\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah wins NDC primaries for Ellembelle constituency Incumbent Member of Parliament for the Ellembelle Constituency, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has won the Ellembelle NDC primaries by a landslide victory. The Former Minister of Energy under the erstwhile Mahama administration polled 993 votes against his only competitor, Alleah Mieza-Mea who managed just 99 votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[1535,669,1206],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ellembelle-constituency","tag-emmanuel-armah-kofi-buah","tag-ndc-primaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Energy Minister sweeps Ellembelle NDC Primaries by 91% - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Incumbent Member of Parliament for the Ellembelle Constituency, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has won the Ellembelle NDC primaries by a landslide victory.\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Energy Minister sweeps Ellembelle NDC Primaries by 91%\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Incumbent Member of Parliament for the Ellembelle Constituency, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has won the Ellembelle NDC primaries by a landslide victory.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-01T13:00:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/09\/Kofi-Buah-696x464-610x400.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"610\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"francis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"francis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"francis\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/3687592f7713dc6c826cf5bbd0e55bca\"},\"headline\":\"Former Energy Minister sweeps Ellembelle NDC Primaries by 91%\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-01T13:00:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91\"},\"wordCount\":256,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/09\/Kofi-Buah-696x464-610x400.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ellembelle constituency\",\"Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah\",\"NDC Primaries\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/former-energy-minister-sweeps-ellembelle-ndc-primaries-by-91\",\"name\":\"Former Energy Minister sweeps Ellembelle NDC Primaries by 91% - 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