{"id":429210,"date":"2017-10-16T15:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/16\/asiedu-nketia-wont-contest-as-general-secretary-koku\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:36:26","slug":"asiedu-nketia-wont-contest-as-general-secretary-koku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/16\/asiedu-nketia-wont-contest-as-general-secretary-koku\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiedu Nketia won\u2019t contest as General Secretary \u2013 Koku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Asiedu-Nketia-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Asiedu Nketia has confirmed he\u2019ll not contest again for the General Secretary position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) when nominations open next year, Deputy General Secretary of the party, Koku Anyidoho has said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Koku who spoke on Neat FM Monday, Asiedu Nketia aka General Mosquito has told him clearly he\u2019s not interested in occupying that office after effectively running it for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>The largest opposition party is expected to open nominations next year for positions at the branch, constituency, Regional and National levels, ahead of the 2020 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2005, he won by almost 80 per cent of the votes to become the third General Secretary of the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership was a re-invigorated NDC that matched the NPP boot for boot in what was termed as the \u201cMother of all Elections\u201d in 2008. Prof. Evans Atta Mills of the NDC won that election under the leadership of the Asiedu Nketia team.<\/p>\n<p>It was not surprising that in spite of public pronouncements by key power brokers within the NDC against his re-election, the delegates at the National Congress of the party held in Tamale in January 2010 delivered a 93 per cent vote in his favour to continue with the better Ghana Agenda of the ruling NDC.<\/p>\n<p>Asiedu Nketia\u2019s exploits is well known in Ghanaian politics. He\u2019s known to be witty and bullish in his political arguments and also has a way of whipping party members into line on issues.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-content\">\u00a0<\/section>\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 has confirmed he\u2019ll not contest again for the General Secretary position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) when nominations open next year, Deputy General Secretary of the party, Koku Anyidoho has said. According to Koku who spoke on Neat FM Monday, Asiedu Nketia aka General Mosquito has told him clearly he\u2019s not interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asiedu Nketia won\u2019t contest as General Secretary \u2013 Koku - 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\/10\/16\/asiedu-nketia-wont-contest-as-general-secretary-koku\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asiedu Nketia won\u2019t contest as General Secretary \u2013 Koku - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Asiedu Nketia has confirmed he\u2019ll not contest again for the General Secretary position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) when nominations open next year, Deputy General Secretary of the party, Koku Anyidoho has said. 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