{"id":318418,"date":"2017-05-12T06:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318418"},"modified":"2017-05-12T06:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T06:01:12","slug":"asiedu-nketia-others-must-be-kicked-out-victor-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318418","title":{"rendered":"Asiedu Nketia, others must be kicked out &#8211; Victor Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A diplomat in the Mahama administration and a failed parliamentary candidate for Abuakwa North, Victor Smith, believes that an overhaul of the NDC\u2019s executive structure is non-negotiable following the party&#8217;s overwhelming defeat in the 2016\u00a0elections.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone from the General Secretary, Johnson Nketia to the NDC&#8217;s Chairman, Kofi Poturphy, must be kicked out at\u00a0the party&#8217;s next congress in favour of what Mr. Smith called new &#8220;die-hard selfless people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <strong>Point Blank<\/strong> segment of <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Mr. Smith\u00a0emphatically that, &#8220;we should change the whole guard. We should start with some die-hard selfless people\u2026 I think he [Asiedu Nketia] has been there long enough. We should just clean the stables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is in spite of the fact that he sees nothing wrong with maintaining former President John Mahama, who led the NDC to its monumental defeat from a position of incumbency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Victor-Smith-AND-Mahama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-318428\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Victor-Smith-AND-Mahama.jpg\" alt=\"victor-smith-and-mahama\" width=\"701\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He maintained that \u201cif we [the NDC] want to be the ones in the driving seat in 2020, our best bet is the one we put out there already. He [Mahama] did so well but there were some hiccups and that probably led to us losing the elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Smith however suggested that, President Mahama may have lost his way when he said the party&#8217;s executives &#8220;should have helped him [Mahama] more than they did. They had the power as a political party to reign in on the President. I think the party was weak in dealing with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diplomat in the Mahama administration and a failed parliamentary candidate for Abuakwa North, Victor Smith, believes that an overhaul of the NDC\u2019s executive structure is non-negotiable following the party&#8217;s overwhelming defeat in the 2016\u00a0elections. Everyone from the General Secretary, Johnson Nketia to the NDC&#8217;s Chairman, Kofi Poturphy, must be kicked out at\u00a0the party&#8217;s next [&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":[58,10,11],"tags":[1580,3,464,129],"class_list":["post-318418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-asiedu-nketia","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-ndc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318418","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=318418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}