{"id":1137567,"date":"2022-06-29T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/29\/npp-never-used-covid-19-funds-for-2020-campaign-abankwa-yeboah-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:49:55","slug":"npp-never-used-covid-19-funds-for-2020-campaign-abankwa-yeboah-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/29\/npp-never-used-covid-19-funds-for-2020-campaign-abankwa-yeboah-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP Never Used COVID-19 Funds For 2020 Campaign \u2013 Abankwa-Yeboah | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The National Treasurer of the\u00a0New Patriotic Party\u00a0(NPP), Kwabena Abankwa-Yeboah has refuted claims that the party used money donated to the nation for fighting\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0to fund their campaign during the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Angel FM\u2019s Morning Show, An\u0254pa B\u0254fo\u0254, Mr Abankwa-Yeboah who is seeking to be the party&#8217;s National Chairman said this did not happen under him and hence called on Ghanaians to discard such rumours.<\/p>\n<p>There are beliefs that the government out of desperation used the funds meant to fund the pandemic for campaign and that has contributed to the current economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to this statement, Mr Abankwa-Yeboah said that is never the case as according to him, the party organised its own funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never used the COVID funds for campaign in 2020, I am the treasurer and I know this for a fact\u2026,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was optimistic that the NPP will be able to break the eight with him in charge.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, called on the party to vote for him at the National congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not give any kind of promise because I don\u2019t believe in promises\u2026but I believe and know that I win the elections\u2026,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\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. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . Please report any inappropriate  to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Treasurer of the\u00a0New Patriotic Party\u00a0(NPP), Kwabena Abankwa-Yeboah has refuted claims that the party used money donated to the nation for fighting\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0to fund their campaign during the 2020 elections. Speaking on Angel FM\u2019s Morning Show, An\u0254pa B\u0254fo\u0254, Mr Abankwa-Yeboah who is seeking to be the party&#8217;s National Chairman said this did not happen under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1136912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[13196,487,261,4249,7025,1753],"class_list":["post-1137567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-abankwayeboah","tag-campaign","tag-covid19","tag-funds","tag-npp","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137567","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=1137567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}