{"id":1264817,"date":"2022-12-13T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/13\/ndc-polls-i-dont-support-any-candidate\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T19:28:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:28:21","slug":"ndc-polls-i-dont-support-any-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/13\/ndc-polls-i-dont-support-any-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC polls: I don&#8217;t support any candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama has cautioned candidates in the upcoming National Executives\u2019 elections to stop associating his name with their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the former President said he has no preference among the candidates and <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">has not endo<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">rsed <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">any candidate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201cMr. Mahama has noted the attempt by some candidates to push a narrative, despite his <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">previous cautions, that he suppor<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ts their candidature. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Of paramount interest to President Mahama is victory for the NDC in 2024<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">to<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">work with <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">expectant and suffering Ghanaians to Build the Ghana we want.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201cHe, like other <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), will<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">work with whoever the<\/span><br role=\"presentation\"\/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">delegates choose and elect,\u201d the Statement signed by the former President\u2019s Special Aide, Joyce Bawa Mogtari said.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The opposition NDC will on Saturday hold <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the 10th National Delegates Congress to elect National Executives to lead the party ahead of the 2024 elections. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Meanwhile, the Office of the former President has also condemned a publication in a tabloid <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">newspaper that the family of the former President is in support of one of the aspirants <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">for National Chairman of the NDC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201cThe said claim and the publication are false, and the rank and file of the party are <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">encouraged to disregard them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama has cautioned candidates in the upcoming National Executives\u2019 elections to stop associating his name with their campaign. In a statement, the former President said he has no preference among the candidates and has not endorsed any candidate.\u00a0 \u201cMr. Mahama has noted the attempt by some candidates to push a narrative, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264817","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\/1264817","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=1264817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}