{"id":1208468,"date":"2022-09-21T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/independent-presidential-aspirant-pops-up\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:18:11","slug":"independent-presidential-aspirant-pops-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/independent-presidential-aspirant-pops-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent presidential aspirant pops up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>A private businessman and human rights activist, Wilberforce Andrews, has declared his intention to contest the 2024 general elections as an independent candidate.<\/h2>\n<p>Mr Andrews, a native of Eyan Denkyira, a community in Central Region said his motive to contest the presidential slot was to bring on board his rich expertise to address the country\u2019s economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the press at Ekumfi-Essakyir last Thursday, he said as a renowned accountant by profession, he had the wherewithal and knowledge to lead the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a citizen of Ghana, I have taken this bold decision to contest the 2024 presidential elections as the aspiring independent presidential candidate to bring on board my rich expertise to solve Ghana&#8217;s chronic problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a fact that white men are no way superior to the black man but only we don&#8217;t trust ourselves. I have been following the International Monetary Fund (IMF), White House and the Europeans all this while and I have discovered the secrets behind their success,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cwhen voted for as president of the Republic Ghana, I will apply the same procedures which will eventually overcome the country\u2019s shortcomings and will be ahead of them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Andrews, who described himself as a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Ambassador-General, said he would bring sanity into the society to engender economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, I do cherish and appreciate both the National Democratic Congress and New Patriotic Party because at least they have been able to contribute their quota towards nation building. I can assure the whole nation that my coming or intervention as independent presidential candidate will eliminate the winner-takes-all phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy system will operate an inclusive government to rescue the country from its hardships and tribulations. Soon I will file my document at the Electoral Commission when a call for nominees for presidential candidates is opened,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also a correspondent to International Monitory Fund (IMF) and an executive member to the following institutions: Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL), United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), United Nations Association of Ghana (UNA-GH), Africa Awake foundation and Anti-Slavery International, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"fee60042268217a72f0ab2a7-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"fee60042268217a72f0ab2a7-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=342494502508165\";\n\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A private businessman and human rights activist, Wilberforce Andrews, has declared his intention to contest the 2024 general elections as an independent candidate. Mr Andrews, a native of Eyan Denkyira, a community in Central Region said his motive to contest the presidential slot was to bring on board his rich expertise to address the country\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208468","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=1208468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}