{"id":5051,"date":"2024-09-07T00:46:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T00:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2024-09-07T00:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T00:46:58","slug":"npp-names-david-asante-as-replacement-for-ailing-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"NPP Names David Asante as Replacement for Ailing MP&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/09\/63138600.295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5052\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The national leadership of the governing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Patriotic Party<\/a>&nbsp;(NPP), in consultation with the National Council, has decided to replace its sitting Member of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parliament<\/a>&nbsp;for Nkwakaw in the Eastern Region, Joseph Frimpong, ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections.<br><br>The decision was made during an emergency meeting held in Accra on Tuesday, September 3, 2024.<br><br>According to party sources, the replacement is due to Joseph Frimpong&#8217;s current ill health, which would prevent him from engaging in the demanding campaign activities required for the upcoming elections.<br><br>David Asante, the current Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Publishing Company Limited, has been named as the NPP\u2019s new parliamentary candidate for the Nkwakaw Constituency.<br><br>David Asante, a native of Nkwakaw, previously contested in the party&#8217;s parliamentary primaries in January 2024 but was defeated by the incumbent, Joseph Frimpong.<br><br>With this new appointment, David Asante is expected to lead the NPP&#8217;s efforts to retain the Nkwakaw seat in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national leadership of the governing&nbsp;New Patriotic Party&nbsp;(NPP), in consultation with the National Council, has decided to replace its sitting Member of&nbsp;Parliament&nbsp;for Nkwakaw in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}