{"id":1062741,"date":"2022-04-21T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/21\/mahama-should-consider-one-of-his-rivals-as-running-mate-ben-ephson-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T09:57:34","slug":"mahama-should-consider-one-of-his-rivals-as-running-mate-ben-ephson-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/21\/mahama-should-consider-one-of-his-rivals-as-running-mate-ben-ephson-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Should Consider One Of His &#8216;Rivals&#8217; As Running Mate &#8211; Ben Ephson | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A successful presidential bid in 2024 for former President\u00a0John Dramani Mahama\u00a0will depend on repackaging himself and picking a new running mate.<\/p>\n<p>This is the view of veteran journalist and pollster,\u00a0Ben Ephson, who has joined calls for Mahama&#8217;s 2020 running mate, Prof\u00a0Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang\u00a0to be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ephson, in an interview on Joy News, the former president must consider picking any of his political contenders for the flagbearership slot as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMahama would have to repackage himself because a Mahama with the same running mate is going to be difficult [to win 2024 general elections]. He may have to form an alliance or perhaps, pick one of the [NDC presidential contenders] as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>He explained further that, \u201c&#8230;where Mahama is, he has the advantage of being marketed already. And Mahama with all his body language looks like he is retaining his running mate for 2020 [general elections]. If he does, I think he should forget 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, persons who have been rumoured as planning to contest for the slot include, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor &#8211; former Finance Minister and Kojo Bonsu &#8211; Former Mayor of Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>Mahama&#8217;s office in a recent statement confirmed in principle that he will be contesting to lead the National Democratic Congress, NDC, into the next elections.<\/p>\n<p>The office issued the statement in the wake of an Economic Intelligence Unit, EIU, report that stated that the NDC stood a chance of returning to office in 2024 but that they should consider revitalizing the party with a new candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The call has roundly been rejected by party top guns who insist that he (Mahama) is the best bet for the party come 2024.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: ghanaweb.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. 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This is the view of veteran journalist and pollster,\u00a0Ben Ephson, who has joined calls for Mahama&#8217;s 2020 running mate, Prof\u00a0Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang\u00a0to be dropped. According to Ephson, in an interview on Joy News, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[7737,7738,1125,8855,1753,6663,8377],"class_list":["post-1062741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-ben","tag-ephson","tag-mahama","tag-mate","tag-politics","tag-rivals","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062741","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=1062741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}