{"id":35279,"date":"2023-06-20T12:32:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35279"},"modified":"2023-06-20T12:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:32:35","slug":"ndc-knows-im-the-one-who-can-beat-mahama-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/20\/ndc-knows-im-the-one-who-can-beat-mahama-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC knows I\u2019m the one who can beat Mahama -Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Flagbearer hopeful of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is afraid of his candidature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Bawumia insists the opposition party knows he is the only that can defeat their candidate in the 2024 polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, the NDC knows that with him on the NPP\u2019s ticket, Mr Mahama cannot claim the Northern Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has thus asked delegates of the NPP to vote massively for him to lead the party into the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey know we will break the 8, and they know that John Mahama cannot take me on in the North, and they know that I will beat him in the North and this is why they don\u2019t want me to be the flagbearer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Bawumia said on Monday, June 19, when he addressed NPP delegates in the Tema West constituency of the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New Patriotic Party will elect its flagbearer for the 2024 polls on November 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, about 10 aspirants including the Vice President have picked nominations forms to contest for the slot, while five of them have successfully filed. Vetting is expected soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagbearer hopeful of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is afraid of his candidature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4553,211,6693,913,1262,6638,3874,130,611,281,7964,2807,11973,3805,9195,12524,2802,6541,3954,594],"class_list":["post-35279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-accra","tag-bawumia","tag-congress","tag-democratic","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-john-mahama","tag-lead","tag-mahama","tag-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ndc","tag-north","tag-northern-region","tag-one","tag-president","tag-tema","tag-ticket","tag-vice-president","tag-vice-president-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}