{"id":2986,"date":"2024-02-18T13:51:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2024-02-18T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:51:43","slug":"npp-mampong-primaries-deputy-foreign-affairs-minister-retains-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"NPP Mampong Primaries: Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Retains Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong has retained his position as the New Patriotic Party\u2019s candidate for the Mampong Constituency in December parliamentary election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He won by 555 votes against his contender, Dennis Kwakwa who secured 167 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe delegates believe I am in the position to deliver more,\u201d Dr Apratwum told journalists after being declared winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 727 delegates voted with 4 rejected on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-d26ca7fb2fa8734d0f8825d93b1058a6 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-WzKpUc3-Q?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His landslide victory makes him a third consecutive candidate for the ruling party in one of it stronghold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On three occasions, elections have been injuncted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, the Mampong Constituency could not participate in the constituency level election due to litigation over the constituency\u2019s album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong has retained his position as the New Patriotic Party\u2019s candidate for the Mampong Constituency in December parliamentary election. He won by 555 votes against his contender, Dennis Kwakwa who secured 167 votes. \u201cThe delegates believe I am in the position to deliver more,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[941,942],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-deputy-foreign-affairs-minister","tag-kwaku-ampratwum-sarpong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}