{"id":1696,"date":"2026-05-12T07:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:34:37","slug":"election-of-presiding-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION OF PRESIDING MEMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-05-at-12.44.53.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1697 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-05-at-12.44.53.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-05-at-12.44.53-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ablekuma West Municipal Assembly held a Special Meeting on 4th May 2026 to elect a Presiding Member. This followed an earlier meeting on 22nd April 2026 which did not produce a successful candidate, as the sole nominee secured 4 \u201cYes\u201d votes and 10 \u201cNo\u201d votes, falling short of the required 12 \u201cYes\u201d votes.<br>At the Special Meeting, the immediate past Presiding Member, who was the candidate, once again did not obtain the required number of votes to retain the position.<br>A new date and time will be communicated in due course for fresh nominations and elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ablekuma West Municipal Assembly held a Special Meeting on 4th May 2026 to elect a Presiding Member. This followed an earlier meeting on 22nd April 2026 which did not produce a successful candidate, as the sole nominee secured 4 \u201cYes\u201d votes and 10 \u201cNo\u201d votes, falling short of the required 12 \u201cYes\u201d votes.At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"AbWMA","author_link":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/?author=2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abwma.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}