{"id":1232943,"date":"2022-10-24T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/popular-traditional-priest-elected-ndc-constituency-chairman\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:14:15","slug":"popular-traditional-priest-elected-ndc-constituency-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/popular-traditional-priest-elected-ndc-constituency-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Traditional Priest Elected NDC Constituency Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/c828f4c199634446ba6fd6a9c6467b99\" alt=\"Vote for candidates who have made contributions and sacrifices\u2014NDC Official  | Ghana News Agency\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">A popular priest, Okomfuo Kyei, known in private circles as Nana Yaw Kyei, has been elected as the Constituency Chairman for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) branch in Adansi Asokwah in the Ashanti Region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Okomfuo Kyei defeated the incumbent, Godwin Anumley Dogodzi, pulling 436 of the total votes cast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The Priest, after his declaration, pledged to work hard to ensure the NDC wins the Adansi Asokwa seat from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), who have held the seat for more than 20yrs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He also called on members of the party to unite towards victory in the forthcoming elections in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Other executives elected were Mr Joseph Ankomah as Vice Chairman, Mr Lawrence Osei Adarkwa as Secretary, Mr Amidu Raman Razak as Assistant Secretary and Mr Kwabena Ebo as organizer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The rest are Moses Appentengf as Treasurer, Isaac Semirika as Youth Organiser, Madam Mavis Adjei as Women&#8217;s Organiser and Julius Dzekpey Mawuli as Communication Officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The NDC held its constituency elections across the country on Saturday, October 22, 2022. However, 15 constituency elections have been suspended due to some unresolved issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OEntertainment (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>A popular priest, Okomfuo Kyei, known in private circles as Nana Yaw Kyei, has been elected as the Constituency Chairman for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) branch in Adansi Asokwah in the Ashanti Region. Okomfuo Kyei defeated the incumbent, Godwin Anumley Dogodzi, pulling 436 of the total votes cast. The Priest, after his declaration, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1232944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4159,8534,9548,680,3610,897,1365],"class_list":["post-1232943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-chairman","tag-constituency","tag-elected","tag-ndc","tag-popular","tag-priest","tag-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232943","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=1232943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}