{"id":37178,"date":"2023-08-26T11:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37178"},"modified":"2023-08-26T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T11:51:08","slug":"there-are-difficulties-but-a-new-leader-will-get-us-out-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/08\/26\/there-are-difficulties-but-a-new-leader-will-get-us-out-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"There are difficulties but a new leader will get us out \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has acknowledged the challenges that Ghanaians are facing amidst the ongoing economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing the media after casting his vote at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">New Patriotic Party\u2019s Super Delegates Congress<\/a> on Saturday, August 26, President Akufo-Addo expressed his confidence in the Ghanaian people\u2019s ability to choose a leader who can navigate the country through these difficult times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s difficult, I\u2019m the first to admit it. I have said it several times, but at the end of the day I believe when the moment comes, Ghanaians will reflect on who best to get us out of this difficulty and take us to the next stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Akufo-Addo also expressed confidence that the special delegates conference will be smooth and credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will today, Saturday, August 26, 2023, elect five<a href=\"http:\/\/citinewsroom.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> presidential aspirants to contest the party\u2019s primaries<\/a> in November this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 10 aspirants are Alan Kyerematen, former Trade Minister; Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Former Agriculture Minister; Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin Central; Joe Ghartey, former Railways Minister; Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, former party General Secretary; Kwadwo Poku, an energy expert; Boakye Agyarko, former Energy Minister; Kofi Konadu Apraku, former Trade Minister; Francis Addai Nimoh, former Member of Parliament for Mampong and Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nationwide election will see some 900 delegates taking part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has acknowledged the challenges that Ghanaians are facing amidst the ongoing economic crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[9302,147,9303,13052,4678,211,2622,6693,8440,1262,911,5494,122,2621,7487,4521,12502,3212,199,5710,611,278,1778,1198,3805,7669,11377,11354,10329,9258,6348,2802,594],"class_list":["post-37178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-afriyie-akoto","tag-agriculture","tag-agriculture-minister","tag-akufo","tag-alan-kyerematen","tag-bawumia","tag-boakye-agyarko","tag-congress","tag-crisis","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-election","tag-energy","tag-energy-minister","tag-former-energy-minister","tag-general-secretary","tag-ghanaian","tag-ghanaians","tag-joe-ghartey","tag-kennedy-agyapong","tag-kofi-konadu-apraku","tag-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-mp","tag-owusu-afriyie-akoto","tag-parliament","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-presidential","tag-railways","tag-trade","tag-trade-minister","tag-us","tag-vice-president","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178","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=37178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37179,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178\/revisions\/37179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}