{"id":37571,"date":"2023-09-11T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37571"},"modified":"2023-09-11T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:52:08","slug":"npp-flagbearer-race-catherine-afeku-joins-bawumias-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/09\/11\/npp-flagbearer-race-catherine-afeku-joins-bawumias-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP Flagbearer Race: Catherine Afeku Joins Bawumia\u2019s Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A former spokesperson for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/?s=Alan\">&nbsp;Alan Kyerematen<\/a>\u2019s campaign,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/?s=catherine+afeku\">Catherine Afeku<\/a>, has thrown her support behind Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/?s=npp+\">New Patriotic Party<\/a>&nbsp;(NPP) presidential primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She announced her decision on Adom FM\u2019s morning show,&nbsp;<strong>Dwaso Nsem&nbsp;<\/strong>on<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Tourism Minister explained that, the decision follows extensive consultation and personal reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have to choose a candidate in this election, and I have decided to throw my support, energy, personality, and talent behind Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. The party must stay in power, and any alternative than Bawumia will be dangerous,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes few days after Mr Kyerematen announced his withdrawal from the elections scheduled for November 4, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an official statement, the former Trade Minister among other things accused the party\u2019s leadership of bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision was met with mixed reactions amid criticisms that he [Alan] has let his supporters down. His critics cite his resignation from NPP in 2007 to support their claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when asked by show host Chief Jerry Forson, about her take on the withdrawal, the former Evalue Ajomoro Gwira Member of Parliament said she was not in a position to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to her, she respects the decision made by Mr Kyerematen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her focus now, Madam Afeku stated is to win the parliamentary primary and win back the Evalue Ajomoro Gwira seat for NPP in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe issued a statement, and we all know what he said, and I respect that. I have to focus on winning back the Ajomoro seat for the NPP. I was disappointed, but I have moved on, and he [Alan] has given us his blessings,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former spokesperson for&nbsp;Alan Kyerematen\u2019s campaign,&nbsp;Catherine Afeku, has thrown her support behind Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the&nbsp;New Patriotic Party&nbsp;(NPP) presidential primary. She announced her decision on Adom FM\u2019s morning show,&nbsp;Dwaso Nsem&nbsp;on&nbsp;Monday. The former Tourism Minister explained that, the decision follows extensive consultation and personal reflection. \u201cI have to choose a candidate in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":37573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[11261,4678,211,10387,1486,1262,911,5494,12234,9974,611,1198,3805,11377,6200,5471,7059,10329,9258,6348,2802,6541],"class_list":["post-37571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accused","tag-alan-kyerematen","tag-bawumia","tag-campaign","tag-catherine-afeku","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-election","tag-energy","tag-host","tag-leadership","tag-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-parliament","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-race","tag-tourism","tag-tourism-minister","tag-trade","tag-trade-minister","tag-us","tag-vice-president","tag-vice-president-dr-mahamudu-bawumia"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37571","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=37571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37575,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37571\/revisions\/37575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}