{"id":1143338,"date":"2022-07-06T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/06\/ayikoi-otoo-withdraws-from-npp-national-chairmanship-race\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T16:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:37:56","slug":"ayikoi-otoo-withdraws-from-npp-national-chairmanship-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/06\/ayikoi-otoo-withdraws-from-npp-national-chairmanship-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayikoi Otoo withdraws from NPP National Chairmanship race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Nii-Ayikoi-Otoo.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Nii Ayikoi Otoo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Ghana High Commissioner to Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A former Attorney General, Ayikoi Otoo, has resigned from the race to become the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p>The former High Commissioner to Canada had earlier pledged to whip up the attention of ministers and government appointees for the needs of the party, if he won the race.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking ahead of the NPP\u2019s national Delegates Conference, Chairman of the party\u2019s election committee, Peter Mac Manu announced that Mr Otoo has communicated his decision to abandon the contest.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mac Manu, the former A-G made this known in a letter on Monday, July 4, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/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=\"aGaU6xKBoic\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ghana Football: GFA, don&#039;t be happy about nationality switches, it shows you are not working(6-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aGaU6xKBoic?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>Former Ghana High Commissioner to Canada A former Attorney General, Ayikoi Otoo, has resigned from the race to become the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The former High Commissioner to Canada had earlier pledged to whip up the attention of ministers and government appointees for the needs of the party, if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[8152,9813,1093,7025,8156,5715,5938],"class_list":["post-1143338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-ayikoi","tag-chairmanship","tag-national","tag-npp","tag-otoo","tag-race","tag-withdraws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143338","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=1143338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}