{"id":1131169,"date":"2022-06-22T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/22\/why-some-elements-are-preventing-me-from-meeting-akufo-addo-npp-1st-vice-chair-hopeful\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:33:38","slug":"why-some-elements-are-preventing-me-from-meeting-akufo-addo-npp-1st-vice-chair-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/22\/why-some-elements-are-preventing-me-from-meeting-akufo-addo-npp-1st-vice-chair-hopeful\/","title":{"rendered":"Why some elements are preventing me from meeting Akufo-Addo \u2013 NPP 1st vice-chair hopeful"},"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\/b1-696x464.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>First Vice Chairman hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Danquah Smith, has addressed issues regarding the attempts to prevent him from meeting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo regarding his political ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he hasn\u2019t been allowed to reach the President whenever he wished to do so despite being his best friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to meet with him when I was about to travel to the States, I think a month ago but whenever I call those who will help me reach him, they give me excuses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that he was frustrated because they knew the president will endorse him when he gets the chance to meet him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were frustrating me and they also know that when I go to meet him, he will support me and they also have their favorite so they won\u2019t allow you to meet him,\u201d Mr Smith noted. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Dwaso Nsem on Adom FM, he explained that he has been friends with the president for a long time and hence, has a genial relationship with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can go to the president now as I speak here,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very cordial relationship because I like him very much and everybody knows we are very good friends even Akuffo-Addo himself knows about this,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the audio below for more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1292330197&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/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=\"5gaoZfWCCtE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REGSEC begins demolition of buildings on CSIR animal research institute lands - Adom TV (22-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5gaoZfWCCtE?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 First Vice Chairman hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Danquah Smith, has addressed issues regarding the attempts to prevent him from meeting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo regarding his political ambitions. According to him, he hasn\u2019t been allowed to reach the President whenever he wished to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1124,648,16084,7752,458,7025,9540,18571],"class_list":["post-1131169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-1st","tag-akufoaddo","tag-elements","tag-hopeful","tag-meeting","tag-npp","tag-preventing","tag-vicechair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131169","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=1131169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}