{"id":1235708,"date":"2022-10-27T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/27\/ndc-chairmanship-race-weve-not-endorsed-asiedu-nketiah\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T06:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T06:01:22","slug":"ndc-chairmanship-race-weve-not-endorsed-asiedu-nketiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/27\/ndc-chairmanship-race-weve-not-endorsed-asiedu-nketiah\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC chairmanship race: We&#8217;ve not endorsed Asiedu Nketiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament has distanced itself from its Deputy Whip\u2019s endorsement of Johnson Asiedu Nketiah in the National Democratic Congress chairmanship race.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Minority said the Deputy Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim\u2019s claim that the NDC caucus in Parliament was supporting Mr. Nketiah was untrue.<\/p>\n<p>It said the leadership of the Caucus never met on the matter \u201cand have not taken any decision on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also said the Caucus has not met and has not taken any decision on any of the candidates contesting any position within the Party<\/p>\n<p>The Minority added that \u201cthe Leadership and the Caucus has no position on any of the candidates vying for the respective positions in the Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Minority also said Mr. Ibrahim, who is also the Banda MP, has apologised to the NDC Caucus for the comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe accordingly urge our rank and file and the public to disregard the purported statement made during the launch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"mqYsecdYHsQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asiedu Nketiah vows to help NDC win 2024 elections if voted as Chairman | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mqYsecdYHsQ?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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has distanced itself from its Deputy Whip\u2019s endorsement of Johnson Asiedu Nketiah in the National Democratic Congress chairmanship race. In a statement, the Minority said the Deputy Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim\u2019s claim that the NDC caucus in Parliament was supporting Mr. Nketiah was untrue. It said the leadership of the Caucus never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1235710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235708","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\/1235708","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=1235708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}