{"id":9109,"date":"2024-12-09T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2024-12-09T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:40:30","slug":"2024-election-dakoa-newman-breaks-silence-after-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9109","title":{"rendered":"2024 election: Dakoa Newman breaks silence after defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defeated Member of Parliament for Okaikoi South Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Dakoa Newman, has congratulated her opponent, Ernest Adomako on his victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on X, the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection&nbsp;expressed her sincere gratitude to constituents for their support over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also commended the constituency for a peaceful election although the outcome did not meet their expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-x ose-uid-907f8150a548904900bdb9f27896a22c ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"400\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the good people of Okaikoi South for your sacrifices and commitment to democracy. Although we did not achieve the outcome we hoped for, I am forever grateful for the privilege of serving as Member of Parliament over the past four years.\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Dakoa Newman (@DakoaNewman) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DakoaNewman\/status\/1866013110705807376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miss Newman was a first-time MP who was seeking re-election in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She, however, lost the seat after polling 24,263 votes representing 42.60% while Mr Adomako, secured 32,691 votes &nbsp;which accounted for 57.40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defeated Member of Parliament for Okaikoi South Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Dakoa Newman, has congratulated her opponent, Ernest Adomako on his victory. In a post on X, the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection&nbsp;expressed her sincere gratitude to constituents for their support over the years. She also commended the constituency for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109","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=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9111,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions\/9111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}