{"id":740302,"date":"2022-01-08T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/bawumia-mourns-death-of-ishmael-ashitey\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:07:07","slug":"bawumia-mourns-death-of-ishmael-ashitey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/bawumia-mourns-death-of-ishmael-ashitey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia Mourns Death Of Ishmael Ashitey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has expressed sadness about the demise of the immediate past Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President in a Facebook post sighted by <strong>DGN Online<\/strong> expressed his condolences to the family of the former Minister and Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Greater Accra region ahead of the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>He write on his timeline that \u201cMy condolences to the Ashitey family on the passing of Mr. Ishmael Ashitey, who was an ex- Minister of State, former Tema East MP and NPP regional chairman. My thoughts are with them at this difficult period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay Hon. Ishmael Ashitey\u2019s soul rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Greater Accra Regional Minister and Member of Parliament, Tema East, passed away Friday evening January 7, 2022 at International Maritime Hospital (IMaH), Tema.<\/p>\n<p>He left behind a wife and four children.<\/p>\n<p>Until his death, he was lacing his boot to contest for National Chairman of the party in the forthcoming NPP primaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has expressed sadness about the demise of the immediate past Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey. The Vice President in a Facebook post sighted by DGN Online expressed his condolences to the family of the former Minister and Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Greater Accra region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740302","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\/740302","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=740302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}