Former Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency Nii Nortey Dua, has died.<\/p>\n
Nii Nortey Dua, who also served as a former Deputy Minister of Sports during the Mills administration, reportedly died on Thursday after a protracted ailment.<\/p>\n
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Constituency Chairman for Ledzokuku, Patrick Noagbedzi, confirmed the incident to Citi News.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>Nii Nortey Dua is dead\u2026it happened at the 37 Military hospital. As the constituency executive committee this is a bad news we\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Noagbedzi said they will soon visit the late former MP\u2019s family to commiserate with them.<\/p>\n The late Dua was Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency in the Greater Accra Region between 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n Ahead of the 2012 general election, he was beaten in the party\u2019s primaries by former Miss Ghana winner Benita Sena Okity-Duah.<\/p>\n He attempted a comeback prior to the 2016 general election, but lost again to Okity-Duah in the NDC’s parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency Nii Nortey Dua, has died. Nii Nortey Dua, who also served as a former Deputy Minister of Sports during the Mills administration, reportedly died on Thursday after a protracted ailment. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Constituency Chairman for Ledzokuku, Patrick Noagbedzi, confirmed the incident to Citi News. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":385142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3,9014,15589],"class_list":["post-385135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-ledzokuku","tag-nii-nortey-dua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385135","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}