{"id":1160217,"date":"2022-07-27T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/independent-candidate-launches-campaign-for-2024-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:10:07","slug":"independent-candidate-launches-campaign-for-2024-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/independent-candidate-launches-campaign-for-2024-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent candidate launches campaign for 2024 presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Accra, July 27, GNA \u2013 Mr Richmond Owusu Frimpong, a Reverend Minister and Entrepreneur, has declared his intention to run as an independent candidate for the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He made the declaration at the launch of his campaign dubbed: \u201cSave Ghana Now,\u201d at Ashaiman, in the Greater Accra Region.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Frimpong said he was running as an independent candidate because political parties had not been \u201ctruthful\u201d to Ghanaians over the years.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He indicated that he had been nursing the idea to run for the presidency since 2014, adding that, \u201cthis is the opportune time\u201d for him to save the country\u2019s future.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Frimpong said he would run an all inclusive campaign, a campaign that would call on all Ghanaians to join him in saving the country\u2019s future for the next generation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He added that his major focus when elected president would be to tackle corruption head on by ensuring that corrupt officials were prosecuted.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Frimpong said he would also undertake a review of the 1992 Constitution, especially clauses relating to appointments made by the President.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cI would make sure appointments made by Presidents are reduced. For example, the President should not be the one to appoint an IGP.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cThe review will give power to the people and institutions to choose their leaders themselves,\u201d he reiterated.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Frimpong said the Constitution needed to be reviewed to curb \u201cpolitical state capture.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He stressed that he would scrap the payment of ex-gratia and run the country with not more than 14 ministers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The event was attended by residents and opinion leaders in the Ashaiman enclave.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra, July 27, GNA \u2013 Mr Richmond Owusu Frimpong, a Reverend Minister and Entrepreneur, has declared his intention to run as an independent candidate for the 2024 presidential election. He made the declaration at the launch of his campaign dubbed: \u201cSave Ghana Now,\u201d at Ashaiman, in the Greater Accra Region. Mr Frimpong said he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[487,8449,1386,10663,1842,88],"class_list":["post-1160217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-campaign","tag-candidate","tag-election","tag-independent","tag-launches","tag-presidential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160217","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=1160217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}