{"id":28399,"date":"2014-06-30T11:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=28399"},"modified":"2014-06-30T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:12:32","slug":"ashanti-ndc-to-welcome-yamin-with-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=28399","title":{"rendered":"Ashanti NDC to welcome Yamin with a party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ashanti Regional Branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is planning to throw party\u00a0to welcome its\u00a0former Secretary, Joseph Yamin back to the region as a Deputy Minister.<\/p>\n<p>President John Mahama on Saturday moved Joseph Yamin from the Sports Ministry to the Ashanti Region as Deputy Regional Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has generated huge outcry from some Ghanaians who firmly believe Mr. Yamin should have been out rightly dismissed from government.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Sports Minister came under attack when he publicly announced that government was airlifting $3million cash to the Black Stars in Brazil to curb player agitations.<\/p>\n<p>Many deemed government\u2019s decision as an embarrassment to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on issue\u00a0in the international media reports\u00a0has increased calls for the dismissal of the Deputy Sports Minister.<\/p>\n<p>However Mr. Yamin took to social media thank President Mahama for his mercy in re-assigning as Deputy Minister for the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC, Raymond Tandoh in an interview with <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> the region needs Joseph Yamin to improve the party\u2019s fortunes in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that Yamin\u2019s presence in the region will \u201cimprove our systems, our programmes and our organizational structures we have put in place for the 2016 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tandoh insisted that the welcome party will take place \u201cwhether he [Yamin] likes it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ashanti Regional Branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is planning to throw party\u00a0to welcome its\u00a0former Secretary, Joseph Yamin back to the region as a Deputy Minister. President John Mahama on Saturday moved Joseph Yamin from the Sports Ministry to the Ashanti Region as Deputy Regional Minister. The decision has generated huge outcry from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25086,"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":[43,38,61],"class_list":["post-28399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-yendi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28399","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=28399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}