{"id":1058907,"date":"2022-04-17T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T15:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/17\/nkwanta-south-municipality-assembly-elects-new-presiding-member\/"},"modified":"2022-04-17T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T15:05:58","slug":"nkwanta-south-municipality-assembly-elects-new-presiding-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/17\/nkwanta-south-municipality-assembly-elects-new-presiding-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkwanta South Municipality Assembly elects new Presiding member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Nkwanta (O\/R), April 16, GNA-Mr Edward Yilignam, the Assemblymember of Odumase\/Ashiabre Electoral Area has been elected the new Presiding Member of the Nkwanta South Municipal Assembly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1.21457552.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He polled 32 votes out of 43 members present in the 45 capacity Assembly representing 80 per cent with Mr Robert\u202f Avedzida, the incumbent, Assemblymember for Nkwanta West Electoral area, obtaining 11 votes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Avedzida who conceded defeat\u202fpledged his support to the new\u202fPresiding Member and charged his colleagues to rally behind him to continue from where he ended his term of office.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Yilignam, the new PM who gave his acceptance speech, expressed gratitude to the members of the Assembly for having confidence in him and electing him to lead them and urged members to exhibit togetherness and unity for more and better development.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He entreated them to support him with their advice and suggestions.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">&#8220;My leadership will not discriminate against anyone but will bring all together to achieve the good and better dreams of the Assembly to foster more development and make Nkwanta South Municipal an enviable one.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Bright Lenwah, Nkwanta South Municipal Chief Executive appealed to the newly sworn-in presiding member to unite members to forge the agenda of development and growth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The MCE said Nkwanta South Municipality could develop faster if the\u202fmembers remained resolute and worked together as a unit.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He charged the assembly members to rally behind their new leader without discrimination to bring the Nkwanta South to the limelight, adding that his office will continue to support them.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nkwanta (O\/R), April 16, GNA-Mr Edward Yilignam, the Assemblymember of Odumase\/Ashiabre Electoral Area has been elected the new Presiding Member of the Nkwanta South Municipal Assembly. He polled 32 votes out of 43 members present in the 45 capacity Assembly representing 80 per cent with Mr Robert\u202f Avedzida, the incumbent, Assemblymember for Nkwanta West Electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2786,7798,454,7799,7800,7796,2620],"class_list":["post-1058907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-assembly","tag-elects","tag-member","tag-municipality","tag-nkwanta","tag-presiding","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}