{"id":13305,"date":"2025-09-24T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13305"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:17:11","slug":"13305","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13305","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15 out of the 23 New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament in the Eastern Region have declared their support for the former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia\u2019s bid for the party\u2019s flagbearer position.<\/p>\n<p>The group made this announcement during a two-day campaign tour of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of his colleagues on Wednesday, September 24, the Achiase MP, Kofi Ahenkorah Marfo, noted that Dr. Bawumia possesses the credentials needed to lead the party to victory in the 2028 general elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The list of MPs includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">1. Ida Adwoa Asiedu (Ayensuano)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>2. \u2060Korkor Asante (Atiwa West)<br \/>\n3. \u2060Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (Ofoase Ayirebi )<br \/>\n4. \u2060Frank Annoh Dompreh (Nsawam Adoagyiri)<br \/>\n5. \u2060Sammi Awuku (Akuapem North)<br \/>\n6. \u2060Kofi Okyere Baafi (New Juaben South)<br \/>\n7. \u2060Akwasi Acquah (Oda)<br \/>\n8. \u2060Kingsley Agyemang (Abuakwa South)<br \/>\n9. \u2060Nana Ampaw Addo-Frempong (Abuakwa North)<br \/>\n10. \u2060Kwame Appiah Kodua (Fanteakwa North)<br \/>\n11. \u2060Duke Ofori-Atta (Fanteakwa South)<br \/>\n12. \u2060Frank Asiedu Bekoe (Suhum)<br \/>\n13. \u2060Charles Asuako Owiredu (Abirem)<br \/>\n14. \u2060Kingsley Ahenkora Marfo (Achiase)<br \/>\n15. Alex Agyare (Kade)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia is contesting the NPP flagbearership against former General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong, former Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong, Abetifi MP Bryan Acheampong, and former Education Minister Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 out of the 23 New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament in the Eastern Region have declared their support for the former Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia\u2019s bid for the party\u2019s flagbearer position. The group made this announcement during a two-day campaign tour of the region. Speaking on behalf of his colleagues on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3507,18],"tags":[864,4100,232],"class_list":["post-13305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-national","category-politics","tag-bawumia","tag-flag-bearer-contest","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13307,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305\/revisions\/13307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}