{"id":1149272,"date":"2022-07-14T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/14\/i-was-shocked-to-hear-my-deputy-competing-me\/"},"modified":"2022-07-14T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:02:14","slug":"i-was-shocked-to-hear-my-deputy-competing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/14\/i-was-shocked-to-hear-my-deputy-competing-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I was shocked to hear my deputy competing 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=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FXeb1AtWQAYNjxu-Copy-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"New Patriotic Party\u2019s National Women\u2019s organiser, Kate Gyamfua\" title=\"New Patriotic Party\u2019s National Women\u2019s organiser, Kate Gyamfua\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Patriotic Party\u2019s National Women\u2019s organiser, Kate Gyamfua <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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\/1303995400&#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>Incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Women Organiser has said she was shocked to hear the news that her deputy has become a contender in the upcoming election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Kate Gyamfua, although she is surprised about the development, she believes that\u2019s the beauty of democracy and therefore delegates will decide who they want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t stop my deputy from contesting me. She never discussed that issue with me. Someone even hinted me about her decision but I didn\u2019t pay attention because I didn\u2019t think she would do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked with her without any issue as my deputy and even when I decided to pick her as my deputy, people were against it but I went ahead because I knew we could work with her. Everyone would see the smoothness level at the end of the contest,\u201d she said on Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen<\/strong> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>To Madam Gyamfua, she is looking at getting over 90% of the votes as she is sure of victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trust the delegates because of the special relationships we have. I have an unfinished business with our women wing. I am sure of victory,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Council of the NPP has announced that its National Annual Delegates\u2019 Conference will be held on Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which is being organised to elect national officers for the party, will take place at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/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=\"LQYHstN4Wrw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau at 1:55 PM on Adom TV (14-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQYHstN4Wrw?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>New Patriotic Party\u2019s National Women\u2019s organiser, Kate Gyamfua Incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Women Organiser has said she was shocked to hear the news that her deputy has become a contender in the upcoming election.\u00a0 According to Kate Gyamfua, although she is surprised about the development, she believes that\u2019s the beauty of democracy and therefore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[4996,651,8929,9443],"class_list":["post-1149272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-competing","tag-deputy","tag-hear","tag-shocked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149272","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=1149272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}