{"id":1224103,"date":"2022-10-14T06:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/14\/i-will-be-a-good-leader-asiedu-nketia-announces-bid-to-contest-ndcs-chairmanship-position\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T06:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:55:42","slug":"i-will-be-a-good-leader-asiedu-nketia-announces-bid-to-contest-ndcs-chairmanship-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/14\/i-will-be-a-good-leader-asiedu-nketia-announces-bid-to-contest-ndcs-chairmanship-position\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will be a good leader\u2019 &#8211; Asiedu Nketia announces bid to contest NDC\u2019s chairmanship position\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has declared his intention to contest the chairmanship position of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Asiedu Nketia declared his intention in an interview with Accra-based Class FM on Thursday, October 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he has served in several positions to garner the experience needed to lead the party as its chairman.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Asiedu-Nketia.jpeg\" alt=\"\u2018I will be a good leader\u2019 - Asiedu Nketia announces bid to contest NDC\u2019s chairmanship position\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032107665 lazy\" width=\"396\" height=\"297\"  data- title=\"\u2018I will be a good leader\u2019 - Asiedu Nketia announces bid to contest NDC\u2019s chairmanship position\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>Asiedu Nketia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to him, he has held various positions in his life, the party and the country in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This, Mr Asiedu Nketia said has prepared him well.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/C97BBAD1-D0A7-4BA7-92D4-76286D93FB6C.jpeg\" alt=\"\u2018I will be a good leader\u2019 - Asiedu Nketia announces bid to contest NDC\u2019s chairmanship position\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032188086 lazy\"  data- title=\"\u2018I will be a good leader\u2019 - Asiedu Nketia announces bid to contest NDC\u2019s chairmanship position\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI participated in the struggle against the military dictatorship in this country, after which I came to Parliament. I was there for 12 years and chaired several committees.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/asiedu-nketia.png\" alt=\"\u2018I will be a good leader\u2019 - Asiedu Nketia announces bid to contest NDC\u2019s chairmanship position\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032030933 lazy\"  data- title=\"\u2018I will be a good leader\u2019 - Asiedu Nketia announces bid to contest NDC\u2019s chairmanship position\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI tasted executive positions by being the Deputy Minister in charge of Agriculture. I have served as Board Chairman, among others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident that with my experience I will be a good leader and example to my party,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>Mr Asiedu Nketia will be in the race with the current chairman of the party, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NDC will hold its national congress on December 17, to elect national executives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has declared his intention to contest the chairmanship position of the party. Johnson Asiedu Nketia declared his intention in an interview with Accra-based Class FM on Thursday, October 13.\u00a0 According to him, he has served in several positions to garner the experience needed to lead the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1224105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224103","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\/1224103","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=1224103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}