{"id":399249,"date":"2017-07-10T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/10\/ndc-picks-flagbearer-by-2018-asiedu-nketia\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:52:00","slug":"ndc-picks-flagbearer-by-2018-asiedu-nketia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/10\/ndc-picks-flagbearer-by-2018-asiedu-nketia\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC picks flagbearer by 2018 \u2013 Asiedu Nketia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/adomonline.com\/ghana-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/download-4-2.jpg\" data-caption=\"Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of NDC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/download-4-2.jpg.pagespeed.ce.5FH6E2mTfx.jpg\" alt=\"Asiedu Nketia\" title=\"download (4)\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3662210223\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of NDC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will elect its Presidential Candidate for the 2020 elections by the close of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Party General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the NDC Constitution stipulates that a flagbearer should\u00a0be\u00a0elected two years ahead of elections when the party is in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the close of next year, which is 2018, our presidential candidate for the 2020 presidential elections, would have been elected. Our Constitution instructs us to do so, and that is exactly what we will do,\u201d Asiedu Nketia the Daily Guide newspaper quotes him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC was massively floored in the 2016 elections by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) with the gap of over one million votes, defeating the party\u2019s candidate, John Mahama, who was then the sitting President.<\/p>\n<p>Mr John Mahama has not officially announced his candidature for the party\u2019s flagbearership race, but here are strong indications that he is going to be in the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Other likely faces in the race are Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, former Trade and Industry Minister; Sylvester Mensah, former Presidential Staffer; Joshua Alabi, SSNIT Board Chairman, among others, who are all lacing their boots to challenge Mr Mahama for the slot.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of NDC The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will elect its Presidential Candidate for the 2020 elections by the close of 2018. Party General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the NDC Constitution stipulates that a flagbearer should\u00a0be\u00a0elected two years ahead of elections when the party is in opposition. \u201cBy the close of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NDC picks flagbearer by 2018 \u2013 Asiedu Nketia - 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\/2017\/07\/10\/ndc-picks-flagbearer-by-2018-asiedu-nketia\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NDC picks flagbearer by 2018 \u2013 Asiedu Nketia - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of NDC The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will elect its Presidential Candidate for the 2020 elections by the close of 2018. 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