{"id":1086345,"date":"2022-05-13T16:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/13\/im-old-enough-to-be-president-in-ghana-how-much-more-npp-secretary\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:17:46","slug":"im-old-enough-to-be-president-in-ghana-how-much-more-npp-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/13\/im-old-enough-to-be-president-in-ghana-how-much-more-npp-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m old enough to be President in Ghana; how much more NPP Secretary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1652458666_753_image-30-696x522.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"YEA CEO\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Kodua Frimpong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A General Secretary hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua, has fought off assertions that he is too young and naive for the position.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he is older than many influential persons holding key position in government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana\u2019s Constitution allows you to contest for the presidency at age 40 and I will turn 40 in November meaning I qualify so how much more an NPP Secretary Dan Botwe who is one of the best secretaries NPP has had was elected at age 39. France President, Emmanuel Macron was elected at 38 and he is doing well,\u201d he said on Adom FM\u2019s <strong>Dwaso Nsem<\/strong> show.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kodua who is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Youth Employment Authority (YEA) said age is just a number.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am my own man, and I am coming with my own experiences and professional training. I have held several positions at various levels in NPP and this wouldn\u2019t be my first. I have read the Constitution and know what is required of me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kodua faces stiff opposition from compatriots  the incumbent, John Boadu, the Western Regional Secretary, Charles Bissue, former Tema West East MP, Daniel Nii Kwatei Titus-Glover and former Member of Parliament for Suhum, Frederick Opare-Ansah.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"5g9X1gaZJMc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man who allegedly raped 18 year old who later died charged with murder (13-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5g9X1gaZJMc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Kodua Frimpong A General Secretary hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua, has fought off assertions that he is too young and naive for the position. According to him, he is older than many influential persons holding key position in government. \u201cGhana\u2019s Constitution allows you to contest for the presidency at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[85,7025,275,3892],"class_list":["post-1086345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-ghana","tag-npp","tag-president","tag-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086345","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=1086345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}