{"id":1233042,"date":"2022-10-24T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/opoku-da-rocha-elected-ndc-constituency-chairman-for-asante-bekwai\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:29:11","slug":"opoku-da-rocha-elected-ndc-constituency-chairman-for-asante-bekwai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/opoku-da-rocha-elected-ndc-constituency-chairman-for-asante-bekwai\/","title":{"rendered":"Opoku Da-Rocha elected NDC constituency chairman for Asante Bekwai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Samuel Ofori Boateng<\/p>\n<p>Asante Bekwai (Ash), Oct. 24, GNA \u2013 The Asante Bekwai constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Sunday elected Mr Opoku Da-Rocha, as the new constituency chairman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Da-Rocha polled 556 votes to beat three other contestants, including the incumbent, Mr Collins Sarkodie, who had 330 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first Vice Chairman position went to Mr Charles Oppong, who had 570 votes, while Mr Hussain Kada Tidjani, the incumbent secretary, retained his position with 847 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Other executive members elected during the peaceful elections were Mr Ayuba Alhassan, Deputy Secretary, Mr Salifu Baba, Organizer, Abdul Rauph Abubakar, Youth Organizer, Ms. Abiba Yakubu, Women\u2019s Orgnizer, Mr Edward Adarkwah Treasurer and Mr Gabriel Asiedu, Communication Officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Da-Rocha speaking after the elections, thanked the delegates for the confidence repose in him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He said the peace and unity exhibited during the elections was a clear demonstration that the party was united and stronger to wrestle power in the 2024 general elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Da-Rocha called on all the party members to come together and work hard to win the seat for the NDC in the 2024 elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"fc3d9c899d94e51c7b1a3ba7-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Ofori Boateng Asante Bekwai (Ash), Oct. 24, GNA \u2013 The Asante Bekwai constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Sunday elected Mr Opoku Da-Rocha, as the new constituency chairman.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Da-Rocha polled 556 votes to beat three other contestants, including the incumbent, Mr Collins Sarkodie, who had 330 votes.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233042","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\/1233042","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=1233042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}