{"id":1242477,"date":"2022-11-03T03:48:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T03:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/ndc-guru-roots-for-afriyie-ankrah-as-next-general-secretary\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T03:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T03:48:24","slug":"ndc-guru-roots-for-afriyie-ankrah-as-next-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/ndc-guru-roots-for-afriyie-ankrah-as-next-general-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC guru roots for Afriyie-Ankrah as next General Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/12206859.jpg\"   alt=\"Afriyie Ankrah\" title=\"Afriyie Ankrah\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A former Ashanti Regional Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is rallying behind General Secretary hopeful, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah. <\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Mohammed Sani believes Mr Afriyie-Ankrah is the best bet to succeed the incumbent Johnson Asiedu Nketia.<\/p>\n<p>His conviction, he noted, on Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen<\/strong> stems from the former Director of Elections\u2019 experience and performance he has demonstrated over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am for Afriyie-Ankrah and I will stand solidly behind him. I have worked with him and know what he can do so I have a strong hope he will deliver,\u201d he touted.<\/p>\n<p>The race for the position is getting hotter as party stalwarts continue to declare their interest in the election slated for December 17, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The incumbent Deputy Secretary, Dr Peter Boamah Otokunor, has made public his intent to contest for the position and succeed his boss, Asiedu Nketia.<\/p>\n<p>Former Ketu South MP, Fifi Kwetey who also believes he has what it takes to lead the party into victory in 2024 has also expressed interest in the position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s no doubt my contenders may have an advantage over me but\u2026 \u2013 Fiifi\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NDC elections: I will beat Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah \u2013 Otokunor brags<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Alhaji Sani maintains Mr Afriyie-Ankrah is his prefered candidate, adding his choice is based on the assessment of the current executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe Afriyie-Ankrah is the one who can face the NPP squarely and I agree with him on a lot of things,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"DJJH4xBWL2Q\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Little Singer Kulfi Chat Room on Adom TV (3-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJJH4xBWL2Q?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah A former Ashanti Regional Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is rallying behind General Secretary hopeful, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah. Alhaji Mohammed Sani believes Mr Afriyie-Ankrah is the best bet to succeed the incumbent Johnson Asiedu Nketia. His conviction, he noted, on Asempa FM\u2019s Ekosii Sen stems from the former Director of Elections\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242477","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\/1242477","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=1242477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}