{"id":1264949,"date":"2022-12-14T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T07:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/ndc-chairmanship-john-mahama-opens-up-on-having-favorite-candidate\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T07:36:01","slug":"ndc-chairmanship-john-mahama-opens-up-on-having-favorite-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/ndc-chairmanship-john-mahama-opens-up-on-having-favorite-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Chairmanship: John Mahama opens up on having favorite candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former President John Dramani has once again cautioned, in the strongest terms, aspirants and their campaigners who deliberately continue to associate his name with their campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the former President, he has no preference and has not endorsed any candidate in the ongoing NDC national executives elections, which climaxes on Saturday at the 10th National Delegates Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Mahama has noted the attempt by some candidates to push a narrative, despite his previous cautions, that he supports their candidature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf paramount interest to President Mahama is victory for the NDC in 2024 to work with expectant and suffering Ghanaians to \u2018Build the Ghana We Want\u2019. He, like other supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), will work with whoever the delegates choose and elect,\u201d\u00a0Joyce Bawah Mogtari, Special aide to the former President said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Office of HE John Mahama condemns a publication in a tabloid newspaper that the former President is in support of one of the aspirants for National Chairman of the NDC.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe said claim and the publication are false, and the rank and file of the party are encouraged to disregard them,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she said.<\/p>\n<h3\/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-133 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/415291057_717138.jpg\"   width=\"1600\" height=\"1021\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"daily-after-content\" id=\"daily-1215202434\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/joinwhatsapp.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"696\" height=\"162\"\/><\/div>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Dramani has once again cautioned, in the strongest terms, aspirants and their campaigners who deliberately continue to associate his name with their campaign. According to the former President, he has no preference and has not endorsed any candidate in the ongoing NDC national executives elections, which climaxes on Saturday at the 10th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8449,9813,8077,678,1125,680,1100],"class_list":["post-1264949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-candidate","tag-chairmanship","tag-favorite","tag-john","tag-mahama","tag-ndc","tag-opens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264949","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=1264949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}