{"id":3663,"date":"2024-03-05T22:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2024-03-05T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:05:30","slug":"i-will-accept-any-political-appointment-within-my-capacity-rex-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3663","title":{"rendered":"I Will Accept Any Political Appointment Within My Capacity \u2013 Rex Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ghanaian musician, Rex Omar, has expressed his willingness to accept a political position from the next NDC government if he is given the opportunity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rex Omar, a staunch member of the NDC in an interview on Joy FM explained that he would welcome any political appointment if the task falls within his capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will [accept a political appointment] because now I think I am of age and I think if I am given any appointment that is within my capacity, I will be able to contribute positively to the development of this country,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to a question about occupying a ministerial position, he said \u201cwhen we get to that road, we will cross it because at the end of the day all these positions are political appointments and so long as you are smart and intelligent and you know what is going on in this country, wherever they put you, you can deliver if you really want to.\u201d<\/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-71e1ac2e43f03e1d43a6c7535dff5a07 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\/lQ9OZLYaMOs?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\">Expressing his opinion on the state&nbsp;of Ghana\u2019s democracy, Rex Omar said the four-year term for Presidents must be reviewed to six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the current 4-year term is not enough for any government to make a meaningful impact on the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause America does elections every four years, we also jump on the bandwagon but the question is, America\u2019s democracy is over 200 years. We just started, okay. So look at our situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rex Omar rose to prominence in 1989 with the Aware Pa album which also included the track, Wodofo Ne Hwan? Following this, in 1992 he formed Nakorex together with fellow highlife artistes Nat Brew (now Amandzeba) and Akosua Agyapong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He later pursued a solo career, released great albums, performed in and outside Ghana, won a number of awards and earned nomination in Kora Awards in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian musician, Rex Omar, has expressed his willingness to accept a political position from the next NDC government if he is given the opportunity. Rex Omar, a staunch member of the NDC in an interview on Joy FM explained that he would welcome any political appointment if the task falls within his capacity. \u201cI will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[1230],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general-news","tag-rex-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","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=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}