{"id":1188658,"date":"2022-08-24T09:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/24\/ofosu-ampofo-sends-strong-message-to-asiedu-nketia-over-ndc-chair\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T09:19:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:19:28","slug":"ofosu-ampofo-sends-strong-message-to-asiedu-nketia-over-ndc-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/24\/ofosu-ampofo-sends-strong-message-to-asiedu-nketia-over-ndc-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofosu Ampofo sends strong message to Asiedu Nketia over NDC Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/president-mahama-mourns-the-late-agnes-awotwe-pratt-of-ndc-effutu-constituency_51373707523_o-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ofosu Ampofo, Asiedu Nketia\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has said he is ready to face the General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, if the party opens nomination for the national executives\u2019 election. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to claims that Mr Nketia is preparing to unseat him in the upcoming election he told Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM he doesn\u2019t take speculations seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the time for me to flex my muscles, I have done this among others. I\u2019m telling you that I will defend my title irrespective of who will contest me even though we are not there yet,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>He explained General Mosquito, as he is popularly known, has not officially declared his intention for the contest, therefore \u201cwhen we get to the bridge we shall cross.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He added that the party membership has confidence in him and will do nothing to suggest that he is the only one who knows everything that will give the party victory in the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofosu-Ampofo and the NDC national executives last week were in Kumasi for the Ashanti Regional membership drive campaign to mobilise and also increase their support base in the region which gave them less than 37 percent of the votes in the 2020 general election.<\/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=\"Q8Mw95O7Q_Y\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Little Singer Kulfi Chat Room on Adom TV (23-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q8Mw95O7Q_Y?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>The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has said he is ready to face the General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, if the party opens nomination for the national executives\u2019 election. Responding to claims that Mr Nketia is preparing to unseat him in the upcoming election he told Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9058,8279,3740,2951,680,6034,1350,3187,1167],"class_list":["post-1188658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-ampofo","tag-asiedu","tag-chair","tag-message","tag-ndc","tag-nketia","tag-ofosu","tag-sends","tag-strong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188658","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=1188658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}