{"id":137901,"date":"2024-01-11T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/11\/my-desire-to-become-president-is-a-calling-from-god-cheddar-confirms-2024-presidency-bid\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:38:01","slug":"my-desire-to-become-president-is-a-calling-from-god-cheddar-confirms-2024-presidency-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/11\/my-desire-to-become-president-is-a-calling-from-god-cheddar-confirms-2024-presidency-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"My desire to become president is a calling from God \u2013 Cheddar confirms 2024 presidency bid \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Renowned Ghanaian businessman, Nana Kwame Bediako, also known as Cheddar or Freedom Jacob Caesar, has officially announced that he will be running for the presidency in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Cheddar, who recently revealed that he is the man behind \u2018The New Force\u2019 political movement, said that he would be running for the presidency because God told him to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on TV3, on Thursday, January 11, 2024, Cheddar told Alfred Ocansey that God revealed to him in a dream that it was his time to become president a year ago and he has since then been preparing towards that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a dream and when I woke up, I decided to form a political party and then start my agenda. It was like a calling\u2026 I am going straight for the seat because God said go for it, it is your time, go for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman said that he started the processes to form a political party and now has offices in all the 16 regions in Ghana, as required by the electoral laws of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the\u00a0Electoral Commission\u00a0of Ghana (EC) has however not authorised him to run the party yet.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he has already made the needed payments at the EC to be given a provisional license to start operating as a political party but the commission is stalling, citing orders from above.<\/p>\n<p>He said that if the EC fails to grant him the permission to form a political party, he will contest in the 2024 polls as an independent candidate under his political movement, the Freedom Movement.<\/p>\n<p>BAI\/AE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Ghanaian businessman, Nana Kwame Bediako, also known as Cheddar or Freedom Jacob Caesar, has officially announced that he will be running for the presidency in the 2024 general elections. 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