{"id":1215951,"date":"2022-10-04T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/04\/bawumia-not-campaigning-with-northern-region-tour\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:15:32","slug":"bawumia-not-campaigning-with-northern-region-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/04\/bawumia-not-campaigning-with-northern-region-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia not campaigning with Northern Region tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Office of the Vice President has denied media reports that his recent tour of the Northern Region is a subtle campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President on Sunday began a three-day tour of the Northern Region to inspect ongoing government projects, interact with chiefs and people and commission completed projects.<\/p>\n<p>But many have accused the Vice President of using the tour to campaign in his bid to replace Nana Akufo-Addo as the NPP\u2019s leader in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the spokesperson for the Vice President, Dr. Gideon Boako said the Vice President was just engaging with people in his community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them are technically not party people, but the fact that he lives within their community, he has a property within their community, and he comes back home after work, they want to visit him and talk to him, and it is quite normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for him to avail himself to the community for people to come and interact with him,\u201d Mr. Boako said.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"sBUzQ471thA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Picking Bawumia or Alan as flagbearer not good for NPP; I&#039;m the party&#039;s best option - Ken Agyapong\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBUzQ471thA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Vice President has denied media reports that his recent tour of the Northern Region is a subtle campaign. The Vice President on Sunday began a three-day tour of the Northern Region to inspect ongoing government projects, interact with chiefs and people and commission completed projects. But many have accused the Vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215951","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\/1215951","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=1215951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}