{"id":34838,"date":"2023-06-07T18:18:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=34838"},"modified":"2023-06-07T18:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:20:46","slug":"charles-opoku-wins-npps-assin-north-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/07\/charles-opoku-wins-npps-assin-north-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Opoku Wins NPP\u2019s Assin North Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles Opoku has won the New Patriotic Party\u2019s internal election in the Assin North constituency. He won with 397 votes defeating Fredrick Amoah Kyei who got 136 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opoku was confident of victory before the election, which was held on June 6, 2023. He said that the good works he had undertaken in the constituency would help him win the primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Democratic Congress (NDC) had accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of colluding with the NPP to insert the name of an unqualified NPP parliamentary candidate, who happened to be Charles Opoku, into the constituency\u2019s voters register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the EC denied the claims in a statement, asserting that it had not received any such request from the NPP to transfer any person\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opoku will face the NDC\u2019s James Gyakye Quayson in the by-election scheduled for June 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National executives of the NPP, led by General Secretary Justin Frimpong Kodua, have thrown their support behind the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-14-723x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-14-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-14-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-14-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-14-750x1062.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/06\/image-3-14.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Opoku has won the New Patriotic Party\u2019s internal election in the Assin North constituency. He won with 397 votes defeating Fredrick Amoah Kyei who got 136 votes. Opoku was confident of victory before the election, which was held on June 6, 2023. He said that the good works he had undertaken in the constituency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[11261,13126,10258,6693,913,1465,911,374,7487,5671,8923,7486,281,7964,10885,3954,594],"class_list":["post-34838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accused","tag-amoah","tag-assin-north","tag-congress","tag-democratic","tag-ec","tag-election","tag-electoral-commission","tag-general-secretary","tag-james-gyakye-quayson","tag-justin","tag-justin-frimpong-kodua","tag-ndc","tag-north","tag-victory","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34838","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=34838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}