{"id":1158122,"date":"2022-07-25T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/25\/i-knew-john-boadu-will-lose\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:52:47","slug":"i-knew-john-boadu-will-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/25\/i-knew-john-boadu-will-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew John Boadu will lose"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1658212269_322_image-160-696x464.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"NPP delegates conference\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Boadu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, says he knew the New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) John Boadu will not survive re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Though he did not give any definite reason, he noted he has a special gift which helps him know of events ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>General Mosquito, as he is popularly known, indicated the feeling he had about the possible outcome was the reason he stayed away from the conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was asked why I didn\u2019t go and if I was not invited. But I didn\u2019t want to go and see John Boadu off. I already had a feeling that he was not going to win.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was why I allowed my Deputy, Peter to attend and speak on my behalf at the conference,\u201d he told Accra-based Okay FM.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-18-at-10.30.20-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"Asiedu Nketia\" class=\"wp-image-2045969\"  \/><figcaption>Asiedu Nketia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Justin Frimpong Kodua snatched the seat from Mr Boadu with over 310 votes margin at the Accra Sports Stadium on July 16, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kodua, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency, polled 2,857 votes to beat Mr Boadu who obtained 2,524 votes out of the total 5,556 votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Boadu has since pledged commitment to work with all the newly-elected executives.<\/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=\"gOuzq3FnwFM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nnawotwi Yi on Adom TV (23-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gOuzq3FnwFM?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>John Boadu General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, says he knew the New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) John Boadu will not survive re-election. Though he did not give any definite reason, he noted he has a special gift which helps him know of events ahead of time. General Mosquito, as he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[5518,678,3917,344],"class_list":["post-1158122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-boadu","tag-john","tag-knew","tag-lose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158122","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=1158122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}