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Ghana: Post Primaries Reflections - Lessons Arising

[Ghanaian Times] It has been a while since the New Patriotic Party held its primaries to elect candidates to represent their constituencies in the forthcoming general elections. Of course 40 sitting MPs of the Party were denied the opportunity to retain their seats in the forthcoming elections. The headlines of some of the newspapers posted fantastic headings which portrayed the delegates as game changers. The June 22nd edition of The Custodian bore a screaming headline which read " NPP Kingmakers Dethrone Over 30 MPs". On

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