{"id":1270634,"date":"2022-12-27T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/27\/why-i-blame-myself-for-my-defeat-john-boadu\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:52:30","slug":"why-i-blame-myself-for-my-defeat-john-boadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/27\/why-i-blame-myself-for-my-defeat-john-boadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I blame myself for my defeat \u2013 John Boadu"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1658212269_322_image-160-696x464.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"NPP delegates conference\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Boadu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, says he blames himself for losing his position after the party\u2019s National Delegates Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0<strong>The Probe<\/strong>\u00a0for the first time since his defeat, he admitted that his desire for the party\u2019s interest prevented him from being selfish to utter certain words against his opponent which could have won him the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that it is because of the larger interest of the party that is why I also did not say certain things that would have explained to people why we got where we were and where we are coming from.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201c(I blame it) on myself and the difficulty we are in as a party in government and I am happy about it because it is better to happen that way than to be selfish and come out to say the kind of things I could have said like what happened to the NDC,\u201d he told Emefa Apawu.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the question of whether his opponent was unfair to him, he said \u201cI will not blame him, he also strategised just also listening to what people are saying and just promised them that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>NDC Chairmanship: I\u2019m not happy with happenings \u2013 John Boadu [Audio]<\/h3>\n<p><strong>I need you more than you need me \u2013 JFK tells John Boadu, other\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Boadu noted that although the current General Secretary of the party, Justin Frimpong Kodua, was not a very close friend prior to contesting the elections, his relationship with him is a very \u201cofficial\u201d one.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kodua polled 2,857 votes to beat Mr Boadu who obtained 2,524 votes out of the total 5,556 votes cast in July this year.<\/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=\"Xoah2C8EulY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Authorities worried cr!minals turn Bobrease D\/A Basic School into dr\u00fcg den (27-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xoah2C8EulY?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>John Boadu Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, says he blames himself for losing his position after the party\u2019s National Delegates Conference. Speaking on\u00a0The Probe\u00a0for the first time since his defeat, he admitted that his desire for the party\u2019s interest prevented him from being selfish to utter certain words against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270634","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\/1270634","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=1270634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}