{"id":10266,"date":"2018-08-06T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T17:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2018-08-06T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T17:10:54","slug":"spio-garbrah-officially-enters-ndc-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=10266","title":{"rendered":"Spio-Garbrah officially enters NDC Presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trade Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has officially declared his intention to contest National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential\u00a0race ahead\u00a0of the 2020 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>He made his intentions clear in a letter dated August 3 addressed to the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>The former Trade Minister added in his letter to the party that he will start his campaign following the opening of nominations by the NDC\u2019s National Executive Council (NEC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish by this letter to reiterate that I shall be a candidate to contest the NDC\u2019s presidential race when nomination are opened with the hopes of leading the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to victory in the 2020 General elections. On this note, I shall accordingly proceed to kick start my campaign in accordance with the decision of the NEC and the subsequent announcement of same from your office\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Sylvester\u00a0Mensah has also formally declared his bid for NDC presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/2018\/05\/22\/ill-beat-mahama-others-in-ndc-primaries-sylvester-mensah\/\"><strong>Mr. Mensah<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>appears unfazed by the keen competition he is likely to face in the National Democratic Congress\u2019 presidential race in\u00a0 2020.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NcZw9RY-ZyA\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mensah and Dr. Spio Garbrah are expected to compete with the 2nd deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin and most likely former President Mahama, although the latter has not officially declared his intention to run in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike his peers, a flagbearer aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/2018\/08\/01\/write-an-essay-about-me-for-cash-spio-tasks-ndc-communicators\/\"><strong>Spio-Garbrah<\/strong><\/a>, has already made an unorthodox start to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He has asked NDC communicators to write an essay about him, in a bid perhaps to test his popularity.<\/p>\n<p>The essay is on the theme: \u201cWhy do you think Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah will be a good leader for the NDC and a very good president of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>94 NDC MPs endorse Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the party\u2019s presidential election,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/2018\/07\/31\/94-ndc-mps-endorse-mahama-for-election-2020-nii-lante\/\"><strong>94 NDC Members of Parliament<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0out of 106 have reportedly endorsed John Dramani Mahama to lead the party in the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to the leader of the 94 MPs, Edwin Nii Lantey Vandapuye, John Mahama is the only candidate who can lead the party to victory in the next polls.-<\/p>\n<p>Source: Citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trade Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has officially declared his intention to contest National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential\u00a0race ahead\u00a0of the 2020 general elections. He made his intentions clear in a letter dated August 3 addressed to the NDC. The former Trade Minister added in his letter to the party that he will start his campaign following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spio-Garbrah officially enters NDC Presidential race - Kumasi Online TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=10266\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spio-Garbrah officially enters NDC Presidential race - Kumasi Online TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Trade Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has officially declared his intention to contest National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential\u00a0race ahead\u00a0of the 2020 general elections. 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