{"id":3610,"date":"2024-03-04T04:39:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2024-03-04T04:39:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:39:19","slug":"akwapim-south-mce-loses-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"Akwapim South MCE Loses Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chief Executive of Akwapim South Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region on Saturday, March 2, 2024, saw defeat in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) primaries for selecting a parliamentary candidate for the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Frank Aidoo garnered 67 votes in the polls, while his main rival, suspected to be the personal assistant to the incumbent Member of Parliament, Eric Yeboah Apeadu, secured a significant lead with 267 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current Member of Parliament for Akwapim South Constituency, Mr O. B Amoah, had previously announced his decision not to contest the December 7 polls due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another candidate in the race, Mr. Annor Mensah, received 54 votes, and Mr. Kwame Ofori Gyau outperformed the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) by obtaining 152 more votes than Mr. Aidoo<\/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-6e984c883e9ecbd37bf6c79a8a96d30a 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\/lm5Lo2c07kE?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive of Akwapim South Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region on Saturday, March 2, 2024, saw defeat in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) primaries for selecting a parliamentary candidate for the 2024 general elections. Mr Frank Aidoo garnered 67 votes in the polls, while his main rival, suspected to be the personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[1212,1213],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-akwapim-south","tag-mce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","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=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}