{"id":288688,"date":"2017-01-27T13:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=288688"},"modified":"2017-01-27T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:12:41","slug":"brong-ahafo-residents-welcome-regional-minister-nominee-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=288688","title":{"rendered":"Brong Ahafo: Residents welcome regional-minister nominee [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of residents in the Brong Ahafo Regional capital, Sunyani, lined the streets to welcome the regional minister-nominee, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh when he visited on Thursday, a day after the President named him to serve in that office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/27\/brong-ahafo-residents-welcome-regional-minister-nominee-photos\/cheremeh-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288691\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288691\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cheremeh-3.jpeg\" alt=\"cheremeh-3\" width=\"1152\" height=\"864\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The supporters, most of whom were clad in party paraphernalia, sang and danced as the minister-nominee drove through some principal streets in the town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/27\/brong-ahafo-residents-welcome-regional-minister-nominee-photos\/cheremeh-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288689\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cheremeh-1.jpeg\" alt=\"cheremeh-1\" width=\"1152\" height=\"864\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The procession started from Bechem in the Tano South constituency, through Duaya-Nkwanta to the Sunyani municipality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/27\/brong-ahafo-residents-welcome-regional-minister-nominee-photos\/cheremeh-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288690\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cheremeh-2.jpeg\" alt=\"cheremeh-2\" width=\"1152\" height=\"864\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The teeming supporters gathered at the forecourt of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) office in the Sunyani East constituency, where Mr Asomah-Cheremeh addressed them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/27\/brong-ahafo-residents-welcome-regional-minister-nominee-photos\/cheremeh-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288698\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cheremeh-10.jpeg\" alt=\"cheremeh-10\" width=\"1152\" height=\"864\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo last Tuesday, January 24, 2017, named Mr. Asomah-Cheremeh as one of the 10 regional ministers he had nominated to serve in his government.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo announced that the former Brong Ahafo Regional Chairman of the NPP would serve as a minister for the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Chiefs kick against Asomah-Cheremeh\u2019s nomination\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sunyani Traditional Council\u00a0on Thursday [January 26], kicked against the nomination of Mr Asomah-Cheremeh as the Brong Ahafo regional minister.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, he disrespected the traditional authority in the run-up to the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The nominee is reported to have said the Paramount Chief of the Sunyani Traditional Council, Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri, &#8220;stooped to the lowest level to call on residents of the region to endorse the Presidency of Mahama. What we find appalling and unbelievable is the fact that a 10-kilometre stretch of uncompleted road could induce a chief of his standing to promise 70 to 80 percent victory in the region for the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chiefs, at a press conference on Thursday said, although they are not calling for his withdrawal from the assignment, they are declaring their position that they cannot work with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnyabor\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @jnyabor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>!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');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of residents in the Brong Ahafo Regional capital, Sunyani, lined the streets to welcome the regional minister-nominee, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh when he visited on Thursday, a day after the President named him to serve in that office. The supporters, most of whom were clad in party paraphernalia, sang and danced as the minister-nominee drove through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[58,11],"tags":[569,3,3505],"class_list":["post-288688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories","tag-brong-ahafo","tag-ghana-news","tag-kwaku-asomah-cheremeh-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288688","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}