{"id":463740,"date":"2018-02-12T21:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/12\/im-not-running-for-president-amissah-arthur\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T21:39:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:39:22","slug":"im-not-running-for-president-amissah-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/12\/im-not-running-for-president-amissah-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not running for president &#8211; Amissah-Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday, 12 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/31781996.295.jpg\" alt=\"AMISSAH ARTHUR 23\" title=\"AMISSAH ARTHUR 23\" width=\"295\" height=\"211\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518471562_57_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Vice-President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has dismissed assertions that he is lacing up his boots to run for the presidential candidate slot of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p>According to the former vice-president, that ambition is not on his table, adding that his focus is to rather help the NDC heal fully and prepare to take power in the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the heels of speculations that the former Bank of Ghana Governor was gearing up to stand for the flagbearer slot as there have been several calls on social media supporting his alleged ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Accra-based Joy FM&#8217;s Emefa Apawu on Monday, 12 February 2018, Mr Amissah-Arthur said: \u201cI don\u2019t have that kind of ambition, I&#8217;m saying that I\u2019m available to be used by the party in whatever way they deem, so, I\u2019m available, but there\u2019s too much emphasis on the leader and so on. Look, we are going through a reorganisation, if we select a leader now, the people who are dissatisfied will undermine them, let\u2019s put our leadership hopes, aspirations aside, let\u2019s organise this thing very well, whoever comes will have a big party supporting him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he would not heed the call of his party members to lead the party, he urged the media to leave the NDC to reorganise. He also denied being behind those advocating he contest for the flagbearership position.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that a lot of organisation is needed for somebody to become flagbearer and at the right time, people will come up to be voted for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I&#8217;m not behind it, I&#8217;m definitely not behind it but I&#8217;m saying there are people who sit in their rooms and they come up with artwork and so on. A lot of organisation is needed for somebody to become a leader, and, so, I\u2019m saying that we are not there yet. When the time comes, people will come up naturally and they will be voted for. We won\u2019t cross the bridge until we get to it. So, when we get to it, then whatever it is will happen,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Amissah-Arthur also added that it is not automatic that he would become John Mahama\u2019s running mate and for him it is not a done deal. \u201cIt\u2019s a choice he [John Mahama] has to make, it\u2019s a choice I have to make whether I\u2019ll accept, given what I want to do with my life whether I want to do this thing again so it\u2019s not a done deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt any point, in an election campaign you have to decide who the best person to join whoever has been elected the president is, for all kinds of reasons, for balancing the ticket, for the critical problems that they face, who he thinks can help him and so on, I don\u2019t think it is natural that I\u2019ll go again as vice president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/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>General News of Monday, 12 February 2018 Source: classfmonline.com 2018-02-12 Former Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur Former Vice-President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has dismissed assertions that he is lacing up his boots to run for the presidential candidate slot of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to the former vice-president, that ambition is not on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}