{"id":1136629,"date":"2022-06-28T17:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/28\/delegates-voted-against-my-candidature-but-1-7m-npp-supporters-in-ashanti-region-wanted-me\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T17:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:08:23","slug":"delegates-voted-against-my-candidature-but-1-7m-npp-supporters-in-ashanti-region-wanted-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/28\/delegates-voted-against-my-candidature-but-1-7m-npp-supporters-in-ashanti-region-wanted-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Delegates voted against my candidature but 1.7m NPP supporters in Ashanti Region wanted me"},"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\/06\/a9284e7e-2cc5-4894-9543-83fa2d1c3bf3-Copy-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"Odeneho - NPP Man\" title=\"Odeneho - NPP Man\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Odeneho &#8211; NPP Man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Defeated candidate in the recent chairmanship race of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region says though delegates voted against him, he is convinced the over one million party supporters in the region wanted him.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah says the number of NPP folks and well-meaning Ghanaians who wanted him to assume the position far outweigh the number of delegates who voted during the delegates\u2019 conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess than 900 delegates voted at the\u00a0conference but over 1.7million NPP supporters in the region were yearning for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remark at a thanksgiving service held together with his family and campaign team at the Assemblies of God Church at Kwadaso Estate in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The former Afigya Kwabre South Chairman expressed gratitude to God, his campaign team and Ghanaians who\u00a0prayed for him and supported him.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Ghanaians to continue to pray for a way out of the current economic hardship in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand the current economic hardship is weighing everyone down. But regardless of the situation we all find ourselves in, there\u2019s hope. With prayers, supplication and hardwork, we shall all sail through. Throughout my life, I\u2019ve never seen a prayerful person who God has let down. Hold on, don\u2019t give up, hope is near,\u201d he encouraged the congregants.<\/p>\n<p>Coka re-echoed the fact that, NPP has a battle ahead to retain power in the 2024 election, dubbed <em>breaking the 8<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He called for support in the NPP\u2019s campaign for successful battle in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/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=\"YE-PFqMHMgs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arise Ghana Demo: We have joined the demo to judge Akufo-Addo by his own words - Protestors(28-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YE-PFqMHMgs?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>Odeneho &#8211; NPP Man Defeated candidate in the recent chairmanship race of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region says though delegates voted against him, he is convinced the over one million party supporters in the region wanted him. Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah says the number of NPP folks and well-meaning Ghanaians who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1136631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[19191,2960,13178,10233,7025,2114,4187,9264,4657],"class_list":["post-1136629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-1-7m","tag-ashanti","tag-candidature","tag-delegates","tag-npp","tag-region","tag-supporters","tag-voted","tag-wanted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136629","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=1136629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}