{"id":445206,"date":"2017-12-09T02:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/09\/gfa-popped-champagne-to-celebrate-ndcs-defeat-ex-sports-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-12-09T02:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:30:29","slug":"gfa-popped-champagne-to-celebrate-ndcs-defeat-ex-sports-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/09\/gfa-popped-champagne-to-celebrate-ndcs-defeat-ex-sports-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"GFA popped champagne to celebrate NDC\u2019s defeat \u2013 Ex-Sports Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday,  9 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanacrusader.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/57531545.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nii Lante Vanderpuye 800x4452\" title=\"Nii Lante Vanderpuye 800x4452\" width=\"295\" height=\"165\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nii Lante Vanderpuije<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512786629_105_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ex-Youth and Sports Minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuje, has stressed that members of the Ghana Football Association popped champagne when the NDC lost the election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 general election in Ghana, NDC lost power to their biggest opponent NPP.<\/p>\n<p>However, Vanderpuije who was the Sports Minister before NDC lost power said, the Ghana FA were in the state of happiness after the NDC lost the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have seen the length of the floor by now, NDC lost the election and the GFA were popping champagne, like if NDC won the election Ghana would have been sweet,\u201d Vanderpuje said on Football Legend on GH One.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderpuje was the number one critic of the FA after he took charge of the Sports Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGhanaHomePage%2Fvideos%2F1728242433919814%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=600\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 35 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/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>Sports News of Saturday, 9 December 2017 Source: ghanacrusader.com 2017-12-09 play videoNii Lante Vanderpuije Ex-Youth and Sports Minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuje, has stressed that members of the Ghana Football Association popped champagne when the NDC lost the election in 2016. 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