{"id":1175678,"date":"2022-08-12T14:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/12\/how-bawumias-call-made-me-know-i-was-indeed-the-general-secretary\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T14:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:34:03","slug":"how-bawumias-call-made-me-know-i-was-indeed-the-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/12\/how-bawumias-call-made-me-know-i-was-indeed-the-general-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bawumia\u2019s call made me know I was indeed the General Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"536\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-197-696x536.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Bawumia smile\"\/><\/div>\n<p>General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua, alias JFK, has said it took him a lot of time to believe that he indeed won the national executive position after the elections on Saturday, July 16, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always say that after the elections on Sunday, I was still in a state of disbelief. On Monday after we met and had an executive meeting, we visited the President, Akufo-Addo at his residence; we then proceeded to Veep Dr Bawumia\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we were waiting for the Vice President, he entered and started greeting. He called me General Secretary, I didn\u2019t even pay attention to him because, at that time, it had not sunk that I was the General Secretary. And so when he referred to me as such, it was the First Vice-Chair, Madam Rita Asobayire who prompted me that the veep was calling me and that was when I fully became aware of my new position,\u201d he told Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen <\/strong>Thursday.<\/p>\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\/1322800828&#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>He said now he has hit the road running because the expectations from party people are huge and therefore he cannot afford to disappoint.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Mr Kodua polled 2,857 votes to beat John Boadu who obtained 2,524 votes out of the total 5,556 votes cast.<\/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=\"GgKIfB7Sr0E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dee Eretwa Guo  - Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (12-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgKIfB7Sr0E?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>General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua, alias JFK, has said it took him a lot of time to believe that he indeed won the national executive position after the elections on Saturday, July 16, 2022. \u201cI always say that after the elections on Sunday, I was still in a state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[7238,160,1413,3892],"class_list":["post-1175678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-bawumias","tag-call","tag-general","tag-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175678","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=1175678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}