{"id":1209062,"date":"2022-09-22T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/ndc-chairmanship-race-no-one-can-stop-me-from-contesting-asiedu-nketiah\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:58:51","slug":"ndc-chairmanship-race-no-one-can-stop-me-from-contesting-asiedu-nketiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/ndc-chairmanship-race-no-one-can-stop-me-from-contesting-asiedu-nketiah\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Chairmanship Race: No One Can Stop Me From Contesting \u2013 Asiedu Nketiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1635ac3b69fc4705b5f817e14cee1652\" alt=\"NDC embarks on reorganisation \u2014 Asiedu Nketiah - Graphic Online\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">General Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has shot down calls on him to step down from contesting the National Chairmanship position of the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Mr Nketiah, popularly referred to as \u2018General Mosquito, says after serving as General Secretary of the NDC for close to seventeen years, the time had now come for him to aim for something much higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">In line with this vision, Mr Nketiah has disclosed that he will not contest for the General Secretary position but will rather aim for National Chairmanship job or even go higher than that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cI can contest for Chairmanship, Flagbearer, Running mate. What I know is that I will not compete for the position of General Secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He adds that every member of the party. In good standing, has the right to contest for any position in the NDC and that position has been solely reserved for anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">General Mosquito made the following remarks in a recent statement he issued to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cThose who claim I am coming for someone\u2019s seat should listen and listen well that no one has a seat in the party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cAfter four years, every seat is vacant and people are allowed to contest so no one is taking a seat from someone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cSince I became General Secretary, people have contested me so no one should say someone is coming for someone\u2019s seat\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cWe are left with three months for my tenure to end so if someone is interested he can pick a form and contest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u2018I\u2019ve heard that Ofosu Ampofo says if I contest for the Chairmanship position he will beat me. But for me, I can say that the Chairmanship of the party is no one\u2019s sole preserve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (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\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has shot down calls on him to step down from contesting the National Chairmanship position of the party. Mr Nketiah, popularly referred to as \u2018General Mosquito, says after serving as General Secretary of the NDC for close to seventeen years, the time had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8279,9813,2318,680,8572,5715,534],"class_list":["post-1209062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-asiedu","tag-chairmanship","tag-contesting","tag-ndc","tag-nketiah","tag-race","tag-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209062","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=1209062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}