{"id":34829,"date":"2023-06-07T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=34829"},"modified":"2023-06-07T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T14:41:16","slug":"lm-expecting-nothing-less-than-25000-votes-gyakye-quayson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/07\/lm-expecting-nothing-less-than-25000-votes-gyakye-quayson\/","title":{"rendered":"l\u2019m Expecting Nothing Less Than 25,000 Votes \u2013 Gyakye Quayson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Assin North Member of Parliament, James Gyakye Quayson, is poised to retain the seat in the upcoming bye-election scheduled for June 27, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He made the remarks at a program organised to introduce himself to the chiefs of Assin Bereku and the NDC members of the Assin North Constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Quayson is of the firm belief that the constituents of Assin North will endorse his candidature overwhelmingly to send a strong signal to the whole world that nobody can choose leaders for them, but themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-12.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-12-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-12-750x563.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will give the NPP contender an uppercut to settle the debate on which party is stronger in Assin North constituency. l am expecting nothing less than 25,000 votes which is far higher than that of the over 17,000 figure in the 2020 general election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, hinted the plan of of former President John Mahama to give Mr Quayson a ministerial appointment when elected into office again in the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-13.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Assin North Member of Parliament, James Gyakye Quayson, is poised to retain the seat in the upcoming bye-election scheduled for June 27, 2023. He made the remarks at a program organised to introduce himself to the chiefs of Assin Bereku and the NDC members of the Assin North Constituency. Mr Quayson is of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[11746,10258,8256,11399,911,5671,6638,130,281,7964,1198,3805,1782,8840,3954,36],"class_list":["post-34829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-appointment","tag-assin-north","tag-chiefs","tag-debate","tag-election","tag-james-gyakye-quayson","tag-john-mahama","tag-mahama","tag-ndc","tag-north","tag-parliament","tag-president","tag-sammy-gyamfi","tag-strong","tag-will","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}