{"id":112780,"date":"2015-04-30T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=112780"},"modified":"2015-04-30T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:41:09","slug":"kojo-oppong-nkrumahs-reasons-for-choosing-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=112780","title":{"rendered":"Kojo Oppong Nkrumah\u2019s reasons for choosing NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former broadcaster, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has exclusively disclosed to\u00a0Citi News<\/strong> why he chose to run on the ticket of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a Parliamentary candidate ahead of the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”AN0avubYWauxfSEqMs7BOLfRG9IrGNqi”]Mr. Oppong Nkrumah who is running for the Ofoase Ayirebi seat said his belief in the NPP liberal democratic ideology pushed him to the party.<\/p>\n

He said the current situation demands a party with forward-looking ideals and principles to take Ghana out of its challenges.<\/p>\n

His reasons<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oppong Nkrumah stated that at heart, he shares the party\u2019s philosophy for solving problems.<\/p>\n

He said he totally disagrees with persons who argue that philosophy does not matter but just pragmatism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe philosophy informs the approach and so if I look across the political options, the NPP\u2019s philosophy and its approach to solving problems that bedevil us is one that appeals to me and so at heart, I agree with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Kojo's<\/a><\/p>\n

His second reason was that taking a critical look at the track record of parties in government and in opposition, \u201cI think I\u2019m more comfortable with the NPP\u2019s disposition towards politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

He remarked that the \u201cNPP does its politics in particular way, deals with the substance of issues, deals with working to improve the quality of lives of the people and I am very comfortable in this place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah added that he has resolved the impasse that ensued between him and Ofoase Ayirebi Constituency Chairman.<\/p>\n

He admitted that he was not \u201ctoo excited at the time but I took it in my strides.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn politics, you expect to be jabbed here and there. When people are not exactly with you, sometimes they say things that are not complimentary but I chose not to engage my chairman in any public spectacle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that their differences were resolved internally and they are now working together to build a party for victory in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust this Sunday, I drove him in my car as we went to the Chief\u2019s palace at Ofoase to go do something there so we are working together to build a constituency and to build the party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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Former broadcaster, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has exclusively disclosed to\u00a0Citi News why he chose to run on the ticket of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a Parliamentary candidate ahead of the 2016 elections. [contextly_sidebar id=”AN0avubYWauxfSEqMs7BOLfRG9IrGNqi”]Mr. Oppong Nkrumah who is running for the Ofoase Ayirebi seat said his belief in the NPP liberal democratic ideology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":105491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-112780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}