{"id":1159278,"date":"2022-07-26T15:59:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/26\/if-he-wins-just-10-of-the-vote-i-shall-resign-as-a-journalistcaptain-smart-throws-a-challenge\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T15:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:59:47","slug":"if-he-wins-just-10-of-the-vote-i-shall-resign-as-a-journalistcaptain-smart-throws-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/26\/if-he-wins-just-10-of-the-vote-i-shall-resign-as-a-journalistcaptain-smart-throws-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"If He Wins Just 10% Of The Vote, I Shall Resign As A Journalist:Captain Smart &#8216;Throws A Challenge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto is the son of Baffuor Osei Akoto. He&#8217;s an Agricultural Economist, a Politician, and a product of the University of Ghana and Cambridge. The renowned NPP stalwart represented the Kwadaso Constituency in Parliament and has worked with numerous Agricultural institutions  the International Coffee Organization.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently Ghana&#8217;s Minister for Food and Agriculture and has the presidential ambition to lead the New Patriotic Party into victory come the next election. There is a hurdle that he has to overcome and that is the intra-party elections which are approaching to elect the presidential election aspirant.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c0da929a16034de7898dc3e9ab11c199\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/d7e5edd1566f4f6c8ea56b5f4ca9d90e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Afriyie Akoto\u2019s contribution to his party is very immense and worth commending in the party&#8217;s stronghold and across the country and will probably enable him to win the party&#8217;s upcoming primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Any minister who occupies the Agricultural Ministry is seen as the &#8221; mother&#8221; of that nation because the Agricultural Ministry is to feed the country&#8217;s citizenry and preserve the generation for the future.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7bab2a9d84204f11a20c12820e1cfa11\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/f785877e64fb4f4d86e0c65f5c4a6633\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, Captain Smart this morning has stated that indeed the minister has not demonstrated enough competence for the past 6 years, and that&#8217;s why he has no confidence and hope in him to lead the NPP party to that victory they are yearning for.<\/p>\n<p>According to the journalist, the Minister has failed woefully with his planting for food and jobs policy. He cited the finance minister&#8217;s figures in Parliament yesterday and indicated that it is inconsistent with the agriculture minister&#8217;s claim of helping that number of farmers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Should he win just 10% of the votes and hope that the Party will allow him to serve by  him as the next flag bearer, I shall resign as a journalist,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Winnerwriter (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfriyie Akoto<br \/>\nCambridge<br \/>\nKwadaso<br \/>\nOwusu Afriyie Akoto<br \/>\nUniversity of Ghana<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto is the son of Baffuor Osei Akoto. He&#8217;s an Agricultural Economist, a Politician, and a product of the University of Ghana and Cambridge. The renowned NPP stalwart represented the Kwadaso Constituency in Parliament and has worked with numerous Agricultural institutions the International Coffee Organization. He&#8217;s currently Ghana&#8217;s Minister for Food and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1159279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2010,21469,2562,839,1161,4293,1000],"class_list":["post-1159278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-challenge","tag-journalistcaptain","tag-resign","tag-throws","tag-vote","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159278","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=1159278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}