{"id":24320,"date":"2022-07-17T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=24320"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:19:21","slug":"jfk-unseats-john-boadu-as-npp-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/07\/17\/jfk-unseats-john-boadu-as-npp-general-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK unseats John Boadu as NPP General Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incumbent General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu has lost the position.<\/p>\n<p>He lost to Mr. Justin Frimpong Koduah, alias JFK in the keenly contested election held at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10032133353\" title=\"John Boadu loses NPP General Secretary position to JFK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-1024x683.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-210x140.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-218x145.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-217x145.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-340x227.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1-55x37.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-1.jpg 1080w\" alt=\"John Boadu loses NPP General Secretary position to JFK\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Kodua, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), is, therefore, the new General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party.<\/p>\n<p>The Legal practitioner polled 2,857 votes to beat Mr. John Boadu who obtained 2,524 votes out of the total 5,556 votes cast.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10032133355\" title=\"John Boadu loses NPP General Secretary position to JFK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-1024x683.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-210x140.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-218x145.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-217x145.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-340x227.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2-55x37.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JFK-2.jpg 1080w\" alt=\"John Boadu loses NPP General Secretary position to JFK\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article\"><\/div>\n<p>The other candidates; Iddrisu Musah -104 votes, Ramseyer Ahmed \u2013 8 votes, Charles Bissue \u2013 12 votes and Frederick Ansah \u2013 50 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Justin Frimpong Kodua will serve as the General Secretary of the party for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>JFK is the former Deputy Regional Youth Organiser in 2010 and a member of the NPP Ashanti Regional campaign team in 2008. He also served as a member of the National Youth Wing of the party as a Chairman of the Legal Committee of the youth wing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10032133273\" title=\"John Boadu loses NPP General Secretary position to JFK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-1024x683.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-210x140.jpeg 210w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-218x145.jpeg 218w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-636x424.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-330x220.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-225x150.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-217x145.jpeg 217w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-340x227.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24-55x37.jpeg 55w, https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Voting-process-NPP-Conference-24.jpeg 1080w\" alt=\"John Boadu loses NPP General Secretary position to JFK\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In 2020, he also served as the Chairman of the Strategic Communications Committee of the NPP in Ashanti Region for the general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incumbent General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu has lost the position. He lost to Mr. Justin Frimpong Koduah, alias JFK in the keenly contested election held at the Accra Sports Stadium. Mr. Kodua, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), is, therefore, the new General Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[4553,7455,2244,10387,7489,8202,1350,911,7487,5061,5367,251,8923,7486,7851,10634,2035,11906,3954,594,11902,5784,7565],"class_list":["post-24320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-ashanti","tag-ashanti-region","tag-campaign","tag-chairman","tag-charles-bissue","tag-ceo","tag-election","tag-general-secretary","tag-general-secretary-of-the-party","tag-jfk","tag-john-boadu","tag-justin","tag-justin-frimpong-kodua","tag-legal-practitioner","tag-lost","tag-new-patriotic-party-npp","tag-the-general","tag-will","tag-who","tag-yea","tag-youth","tag-youth-employment"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50620,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions\/50620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}