{"id":274715,"date":"2011-01-23T19:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49093"},"modified":"2011-01-23T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T19:15:23","slug":"elvis-afriyie-ankrah-im-not-interested-in-akan-constituency-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/23\/elvis-afriyie-ankrah-im-not-interested-in-akan-constituency-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Afriyie Ankrah: I\u2019m Not Interested In Akan Constituency Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_49094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49094\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-49094\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/23\/elvis-afriyie-ankrah-i%e2%80%99m-not-interested-in-akan-constituency-seat\/elvis-afriyie-ankrah\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49094\" title=\"Elvis Afriyie Ankrah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Elvis-Afriyie-Ankrah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Local Government Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDeputy Local Government Minister,  Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has denied media reports that he is eyeing the Akan  constituency seat in the Volta region come 2012.<br \/>\nSpeaking on Xfm  morning show, the Big Bite Monday, 17th January 2010, Mr Afryie Ankrah  categorically rubbished the report stressing, his singular ambition is  to ensure that President John Mills secures a second term in office.<br \/>\n\u201cI  think that for now, I am very clear and focused in my mind. My ultimate  objective is to ensure that President Mills goes for a second term. So I  will work to be part of a team to ensure that that happens,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThere  have been some media reports suggesting that the Deputy Local  Government Minister is preparing feverishly to oust the sitting NDC  Member of Parliament for the Akan Constituency come the next  parliamentary primaries of the party.<br \/>\nHowever, Mr Afriyie Ankrah  expressed surprise in this piece of news. Even though he concedes that  he has been approached by quite a number of people to contest various  parliamentary seats, he says he has declined all offers.<br \/>\n\u201cI am  very surprised at the report. In 2004, the then MP approached me and  said he wanted me to contest. I told him I had a national assignment,  that I was looking at the broader picture of ensuring that Professor  Mills becomes the president of Ghana, and as a Deputy General Secretary  in charge of operations, if I went down to the constituency level, it  will distract me from the national assignment that I was doing, and so I  decline.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSince then, interestingly, other constituencies have  approached me as well. Ayawaso West Wuogon, where I contested in 2000  approached me, I gently declined. The Keta constituency, where my mother  comes from, has also approached me. I give the same answers to all of  them.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI just ask them a simple question; on Election Day,  looking at the kind of things that I do, if I am struggling to monitor  ballots in Keta, Akan or West Wuogon, will I be able to do those things  effectively at the national level? And nobody has been able to answer  that question for me. If I am convinced that somebody can answer that  question, then I may reconsider, but for now, I\u2019m looking at the larger  picture,\u201d Elvis Afriyie Ankrah reiterated.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the seating MP for the Akan Constituency, Joseph Kwadwo Ofori has warned that the Akan delegates are going to reject any member of the party who will contest him for the seat in the upcoming primaries.<br \/>\nReacting to the reports that he has a contender in Mr Afriyie Ankrah, Hon Kojo Fori openly boasted that as a grassroot man, his position as an MP is firmly grounded.<br \/>\n\u201cMy people voted for me, they know I could do the job. I have done halfway through my mandate and I can assure you that whoever comes for the primaries against me will be beaten hands down.\u201d<br \/>\nHon Kojo Fori touted his achievements in the constituency as the main ingredient that will award him the seat for a second time. He says \u201cI am still on course, and I can strongly believe my people know that I\u2019m working, as such, whoever comes against me will be beaten hands down.\u201d<br \/>\nSource: Abena Asiedua Tenkorang\/Xfm 95.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Local Government Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has denied media reports that he is eyeing the Akan constituency seat in the Volta region come 2012. Speaking on Xfm morning show, the Big Bite Monday, 17th January 2010, Mr Afryie Ankrah categorically rubbished the report stressing, his singular ambition is to ensure that President John Mills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elvis Afriyie Ankrah: I\u2019m Not Interested In Akan Constituency Seat - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/23\/elvis-afriyie-ankrah-im-not-interested-in-akan-constituency-seat\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Elvis Afriyie Ankrah: I\u2019m Not Interested In Akan Constituency Seat - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Deputy Local Government Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has denied media reports that he is eyeing the Akan constituency seat in the Volta region come 2012. 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