{"id":64269,"date":"2024-01-11T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=64269"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:38:52","slug":"the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah","title":{"rendered":"The highest bidder will win NPP primaries \u2013 Adum Barwuah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>A leading member of ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, Oheneba Kofi Adum Barwuah, believes the highest bidder will win the upcoming parliamentary primaries on Saturday, January 27.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to him, it is abundantly clear that the NPP primaries will go in favour of the highest bidder as it would be an \u201cauction house\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a telephone interview on GhanAkoma on Akoma FM 87.9MHz in Kumasi with William Evans-Nkum, Adum Barwuah said \u201ceverybody knew that the right people will not be voted by the party\u2019s delegates\u201d.He bemoaned the influence of money in the just ended presidential primaries of the party.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that, majority of the outcome of the NPP parliamentary primaries will be influenced by money and not competence or ability to impact good governance in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that money has compromised the value of elections in Ghana.\u201cWhat we are going to do is an auction, not an election because the highest bidders will win, as I have been saying, whoever pays the highest money will win. But in some cases if the people are really angry with you it does not matter how much money you pay, they will still vote again you,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. A leading member of ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, Oheneba Kofi Adum Barwuah, believes the highest bidder will win the upcoming parliamentary primaries on Saturday, January 27. According to him, it is abundantly clear that the NPP primaries will go in favour of the highest bidder as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-64269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"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>The highest bidder will win NPP primaries \u2013 Adum Barwuah - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A leading member of ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, Oheneba Kofi Adum Barwuah, believes the h ...\" \/>\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\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The highest bidder will win NPP primaries \u2013 Adum Barwuah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A leading member of ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, Oheneba Kofi Adum Barwuah, believes the h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah\" \/>\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=\"2024-01-11T16:24:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2024\/01\/sm_1704971304.047363.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"The highest bidder will win NPP primaries \u2013 Adum Barwuah\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-11T16:24:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah\"},\"wordCount\":227,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2024\/01\/sm_1704971304.047363.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/the-highest-bidder-will-win-npp-primaries-adum-barwuah\",\"name\":\"The highest bidder will win NPP primaries \u2013 Adum Barwuah - 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