{"id":1269932,"date":"2022-12-24T23:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/24\/asiedu-nketias-new-nickname-revealed-check-it-out\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T23:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T23:37:40","slug":"asiedu-nketias-new-nickname-revealed-check-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/24\/asiedu-nketias-new-nickname-revealed-check-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiedu Nketia&#8217;s new nickname revealed; check it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1671925060_267_1671283457351-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"NDC 10th Congress at the Accra Sports Stadium\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnson Asiedu Nketia NDC Chairman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ningo Prampram MP, Sam George, has announced a new nickname for the Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia.<\/p>\n<p>General Mosquito, as he is popularly known, according to Mr George will now be General Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>This name to the outspoken politician comes with Mr Nketia\u2019s new position in the party and will be duly recognised by all.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsiedu Nketia, we have decided to call him the General Chairman because Chairman General has been corrupted elsewhere at Abeka Junction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>General Mosquito has become a household name in Ghana politics.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Adom FM\u2019s morning show\u00a0<strong>Dwaso Nsem<\/strong>, Mr Nketia\u00a0said he was given that name by members of the New Patriotic Party when he was a parliamentarian.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he was neither the Minority Leader nor the Deputy but emerged as the de-facto Minority Leader at that time due to his performance in the House during former President John Kufuor\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<h3>Asiedu Nketia speaks on death of delegate at NDC Congress [Audio]<\/h3>\n<h3>Listen: Asiedu Nketia reveals why he is called \u2018General Mosquito\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Placing his \u2018naming ceremony\u2019 within context, he said on the occasion when he was given the name, Parliament was considering the nominees of former President Kufuor for appointment as ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nketia, who is the NDC\u2019s longest-serving General Secretary, was elected the Chairman at the party\u2019s 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Delegates Congress on December 17, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He toppled his predecessor, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and former MP, Nii Ashitey Armah and Samuel Adusei to emerge the victor.<\/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=\"oD82NnkidGE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Impactful: Residents of Sanguli praise Adom News for contributing to area\u2019s development (23-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oD82NnkidGE?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>Johnson Asiedu Nketia NDC Chairman Ningo Prampram MP, Sam George, has announced a new nickname for the Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia. General Mosquito, as he is popularly known, according to Mr George will now be General Chairman. This name to the outspoken politician comes with Mr Nketia\u2019s new position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269932","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=1269932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}