{"id":1267286,"date":"2022-12-19T03:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T03:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/19\/lets-work-together-there-is-a-lot-of-room-under-the-umbrella-mahama-consoles-losers\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T03:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T03:03:01","slug":"lets-work-together-there-is-a-lot-of-room-under-the-umbrella-mahama-consoles-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/19\/lets-work-together-there-is-a-lot-of-room-under-the-umbrella-mahama-consoles-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s work together, there is a lot of room under the umbrella &#8211; Mahama consoles losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1671418981_857_Mahama-at-NDC-Congress-1024x768.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Former President, John Dramani Mahama has sought to placate all unsuccessful contestants who sought national executive positions in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at its just-ended national delegates congress held in Accra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahama said there is enough room for everyone in the party to contribute their quota.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to him, no one would be sidelined, and that they should not feel disappointed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"l2kDd1RpwPA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mahama&#039;s closing remarks at 2022 NDC National Delegates Confrence\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2kDd1RpwPA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Speaking after the swearing in of the newly elected national executives, Mr Mahama asked winners to be measured in their celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>He also urged them to reach out to losers and involve them in whatever processes they embark upon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis celebration must be very short. We must cut it short and get to work immediately. As I said, we are all the winners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who were elected, we must be gracious in victory and for those who have lost, let us understand that there is a lot of room under the umbrella for everybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The party organised its 10th National Delegates Congress to elect its new executives on Saturday, December 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Delegates of the party converged at the Accra sports Stadium for the exercise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some 9,200 delegates from the 276 constituencies took part in the exercise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the contest, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah won the National Chairman position, beating his \u2018good friend\u2019 and incumbent chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President, John Dramani Mahama has sought to placate all unsuccessful contestants who sought national executive positions in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at its just-ended national delegates congress held in Accra.\u00a0 Mr Mahama said there is enough room for everyone in the party to contribute their quota.\u00a0 According to him, no one would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267286","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\/1267286","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=1267286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}