{"id":1166018,"date":"2022-08-04T08:51:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/04\/top-politician-set-to-contest-for-a-sports-position\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T08:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:51:40","slug":"top-politician-set-to-contest-for-a-sports-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/04\/top-politician-set-to-contest-for-a-sports-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Politician Set to Contest For a Sports Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Business man and politician, Nii Lante Bannerman has promised to change the face of Handball when elected as president of the Association.<\/p>\n<p>Nii Lante Bannerman alongside other contestants must convince 39 delegates on August 13 at the AMA office for the chairmanship position.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/339a3bb17c564ed18001425c64e52eaa\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Bannerman, who owns a Handball team and a second Division club, tells Gold Sports about his plans for Handball when elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Handball like any other sports requires proper attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the international scene, even the [All] Africa Games that is going to be organized in Ghana next year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/daa893acdaeb49d88b2150c34d4af005\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the strength of our national team as compared to the other countries, I think our national team will be able to face any of the countries that are coming because they\u2019ve lacked the competition environment for a long time,\u201d Nii Lante Bannerman told Radio Gold Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any sport, competition is what keeps the players in shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want to do is to get handball onto its feet, we believe that Handball deserves better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a way of doing that, we will make sure that Handball is developed especially in every district, every region and then nationwide.\u201d Nii Lante Bannerman added.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (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\">\nAll Africa Games<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGold Sports<br \/>\nHandball<br \/>\nNii Lante Bannerman<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business man and politician, Nii Lante Bannerman has promised to change the face of Handball when elected as president of the Association. Nii Lante Bannerman alongside other contestants must convince 39 delegates on August 13 at the AMA office for the chairmanship position. Mr Bannerman, who owns a Handball team and a second Division club, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7329,5008,3316,618,871,121],"class_list":["post-1166018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-contest","tag-politician","tag-position","tag-set","tag-sports","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166018","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=1166018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}