{"id":1235008,"date":"2022-10-26T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/26\/not-only-is-john-mahama-ndcs-best-bet-he-is-ghanas\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:38:36","slug":"not-only-is-john-mahama-ndcs-best-bet-he-is-ghanas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/26\/not-only-is-john-mahama-ndcs-best-bet-he-is-ghanas\/","title":{"rendered":"Not only is John Mahama NDC&#8217;s best bet; he is Ghana&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otukonor has thrown his weight behind John Dramani Mahama in his quest to be re-elected as flagbearer of the party.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy General Secretary, who is also aspiring to be the General Secretary of the party, said no one comes close to the former President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI support John Mahama, even though I am not necessarily supposed to support anyone as a General Secretary hopeful. But then, I do not know if anyone else is going to contest him. Because he is the only one I know, I am comfortable throwing my weight behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI doubt if anyone with aspirations of becoming a flagbearer will contest. Anyone who comes forward to contest him [Mahama] may have other motives. I\u2019m not so sure the person is going in to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cJohn Mahama is not only the best bet for the NDC, but for Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"SNbXZ5lhVlw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NDC in Central Region hopeful of increasing dominance after constituency polls | CNR\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SNbXZ5lhVlw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otukonor has thrown his weight behind John Dramani Mahama in his quest to be re-elected as flagbearer of the party. The Deputy General Secretary, who is also aspiring to be the General Secretary of the party, said no one comes close to the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1235010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235008","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\/1235008","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=1235008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}