{"id":1208937,"date":"2022-09-22T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/i-wont-seek-re-election-as-ndc-general-secretary-asiedu-nketiah%ef%bf%bc\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:38:02","slug":"i-wont-seek-re-election-as-ndc-general-secretary-asiedu-nketiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/i-wont-seek-re-election-as-ndc-general-secretary-asiedu-nketiah\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I won\u2019t seek re-election as NDC General Secretary’ – Asiedu Nketiah\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has disclosed that he will not seek re-election when the party goes to congress on December 17.<\/p>\n

The veteran politician said it\u2019s time for him to make way for others to take over the administration of the party.<\/p>\n

According to him, the position demands a lot.<\/p>\n

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Asiedu Nketia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAge plays a major role in everything. This job of a General Secretary involves a lot; your time, energy, among others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have considered all these, and I am of the firm view that I won\u2019t contest again. What I am saying is that I won\u2019t seek re-election as General Secretary,\u201d Mr Nketiah said in an interview with Accra-based Radio Gold on Wednesday, September 21.<\/p>\n

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Asiedu Nketia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, when quizzed about his next move, he declined to answer, saying he will announce same at a later date.<\/p>\n

Mr Nketiah became NDC General Secretary in 2005.<\/p>\n

The party is expected to go to congress on December 17, to elect new national officers.<\/p>\n

The likes of Peter Boamah Otokunor and Elvis Afriyie Ankrah have declared their intention to contest the position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has disclosed that he will not seek re-election when the party goes to congress on December 17. The veteran politician said it\u2019s time for him to make way for others to take over the administration of the party. According to him, the position […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208937","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\/1208937","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=1208937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}