{"id":1223458,"date":"2022-10-13T11:58:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/i-cant-confirm-or-deny-if-id-contest-for-ndc-flagbearership-mahama\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:58:17","slug":"i-cant-confirm-or-deny-if-id-contest-for-ndc-flagbearership-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/i-cant-confirm-or-deny-if-id-contest-for-ndc-flagbearership-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t confirm or deny if I\u2019d contest for NDC flagbearership – Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former President John Mahama says he has not decided whether he will lead the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Voice of America (VOA) he said since the party is yet to make that decision in 2023, it would be premature for him to announce his intentions.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cIt\u2019s good to keep your opponent guessing so even if I am not running, I am not going to say I am not running.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA decision would be taken early next year in the first quarter; that\u2019s when we hold our party\u2019s primaries for the presidential candidacy and we\u2019d see,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In an earlier interview with Uganda-based NBS television, Mr Mahama said he would not have any problem if the NDC does not choose him as the 2024 flagbearer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party decides. If the party thinks I should [be the flagbearer], why not? My country has given me so much\u2026 educated me, made me who I am. I will not deprive the people of that choice if I have to and so it depends on what the party thinks is best for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s to win the election of 2024 and if we have to have a candidate other than me, I don\u2019t have a problem with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cit is not about concealing my interest but it is making sure that the democratic space is preserved and that alternatives do exist for political parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President John Mahama says he has not decided whether he will lead the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 elections. In an interview with the Voice of America (VOA) he said since the party is yet to make that decision in 2023, it would be premature for him to announce his intentions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223458","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\/1223458","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=1223458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}