{"id":1228334,"date":"2022-10-19T09:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/19\/its-dangerous-to-assume-2024-elections-will-be-a-walkover-for-ndc-afriyie-ankrah\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:04:23","slug":"its-dangerous-to-assume-2024-elections-will-be-a-walkover-for-ndc-afriyie-ankrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/19\/its-dangerous-to-assume-2024-elections-will-be-a-walkover-for-ndc-afriyie-ankrah\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s dangerous to assume 2024 elections will be a walkover for NDC \u2013 Afriyie Ankrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says the 2024 polls will be difficult for the party.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said it will be a dangerous posture to assume otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC General Secretary hopeful in an interview with Ghana News Agency said anyone who harbours such thought does not understand the country\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Elvis-Afriyie-Ankrah-1-1024x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s dangerous to assume 2024 elections will be a walkover for NDC \u2013 Afriyie Ankrah\" class=\"wp-image-10032173012 lazy\"  data- title=\"It\u2019s dangerous to assume 2024 elections will be a walkover for NDC \u2013 Afriyie Ankrah\"\/><figcaption>Elvis Afriyie Ankrah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the outspoken politician, the New Patriotic Party is a dangerous party to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is dangerous for anybody to think that it is going to be a walk over\u2026I am very clear in my mind about the kind of challenge we are going to face come 2024. It is not going to be easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have dealt with the NPP very closely. I dealt with them in 2008, 2012, and 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Elvis-Afriyie-Ankrah-1.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s dangerous to assume 2024 elections will be a walkover for NDC \u2013 Afriyie Ankrah\" class=\"wp-image-10031826653 lazy\"  data- title=\"It\u2019s dangerous to assume 2024 elections will be a walkover for NDC \u2013 Afriyie Ankrah\"\/><figcaption>Elvis-Afriyie Ankrah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, for anybody to just casually assume that 2024 is just going to be a walkover, the person does not understand the electoral dynamics of the kind of opponent we are dealing with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ankrah added that the NDC must be \u201cvigilant, aggressive and strong\u201d to able to win the polls.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, the NDC cannot afford not to win the elections to save Ghanaians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the preparations in 2020 came a little late so it is always important to start preparations early for all the processes \u2013 choice of running mates, recruiting and training of agents, testing systems and all that.\u201d Mr Ankrah said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Mr Ankrah has already urged Ghanaians not to allow the NPP to achieve its quest of \u201cbreaking the right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the ruling party has already broken enough systems in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have done enough breaking already and should not be allowed to break the eight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have broken the country, the economy, infrastructure, the educational system. In fact, everything that is worth breaking. The country is a mess,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says the 2024 polls will be difficult for the party. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said it will be a dangerous posture to assume otherwise. The NDC General Secretary hopeful in an interview with Ghana News Agency said anyone who harbours such thought does not understand the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228334","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\/1228334","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=1228334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}