{"id":1268060,"date":"2022-12-20T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/why-i-wore-a-warlord-smock-asiedu-nketia-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:00:43","slug":"why-i-wore-a-warlord-smock-asiedu-nketia-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/why-i-wore-a-warlord-smock-asiedu-nketia-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I wore a warlord smock \u2013 Asiedu Nketia reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has couched an identity for himself with the symbolic smocks he wears at virtually every major party event.<\/p>\n<p>Among the numerous smocks he wears, there\u2019s one particular smock he is noted for donning for some of these events.<\/p>\n<p>The smock is a black one with party colours, which also contains emblems.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, he revealed that he often appears in this symbolic smock whenever there is a battle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1671283484130-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Why I wore a warlord smock \u2013 Asiedu Nketia reveals\" class=\"wp-image-2196734 lazy\" title=\"Why I wore a warlord smock \u2013 Asiedu Nketia reveals\"\/><figcaption>Asiedu Nketia and his entourage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He explained at the National Delegates Congress, he chose to wear his symbolic smock to indicate his readiness for the battle \u2013 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wear this type of costume occasionally, when the occasion demands. It is our traditional war battle dress, so when you are going into battle you wear it and you know I\u2019m referred to as the General of NDC for a good reason because people think that whenever there is crisis, I am the one who is called upon to take the lead. Traditionally this is the regalia of a war general and so on occasions like this is the dress\u2026,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nketia has been elected National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress.<\/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>The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has couched an identity for himself with the symbolic smocks he wears at virtually every major party event. Among the numerous smocks he wears, there\u2019s one particular smock he is noted for donning for some of these events. The smock is a black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268060","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\/1268060","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=1268060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}