{"id":1131061,"date":"2022-06-22T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/22\/my-biggest-regret-was-2008-elections\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:02:17","slug":"my-biggest-regret-was-2008-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/22\/my-biggest-regret-was-2008-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"My biggest regret was 2008 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/b2-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"NPP 1st Vice Chairman Hopeful, Danquah Smith\" title=\"NPP 1st Vice Chairman Hopeful, Danquah Smith\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NPP 1st Vice Chairman Hopeful, Danquah Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) 1st Vice Chairman hopeful, Danquah Smith, says his biggest regret was after the party lost the elections to the opposition in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP, in 2008, lost the presidential seat after 8 years in government to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over 40,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking in an interview with <strong>Adom FM\u2019s Dwaso Nsem<\/strong> on Wednesday, Mr. Danquah said he felt sad and hurt, reflecting on the election. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy biggest regret after joining NPP was in 2008 when we lost the elections. I was highly down because I thought we deserved to win the elections,\u201d he recounted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Mr Danquah popularly called Chairman Buttey stated he was poised for victory in the upcoming national elections through which he will help the party break the \u2018eight\u2019 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s competing against 10 other individuals for the National Vice Chairmanship position in the elections scheduled for July 15 to 17, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/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=\"b6EDiL1oPiA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"They&#039;re Always Beefing Me Because They Get Attention When I Reply Them - Kuami Eugene (22-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b6EDiL1oPiA?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>NPP 1st Vice Chairman Hopeful, Danquah Smith New Patriotic Party (NPP) 1st Vice Chairman hopeful, Danquah Smith, says his biggest regret was after the party lost the elections to the opposition in 2008. The NPP, in 2008, lost the presidential seat after 8 years in government to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over 40,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2229,5906,2662],"class_list":["post-1131061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-biggest","tag-elections","tag-regret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131061","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=1131061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}