{"id":41776,"date":"2014-08-25T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=41776"},"modified":"2014-08-25T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:23:42","slug":"ken-agyapongs-comments-unfortunate-and-irrelevant-ashanti-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=41776","title":{"rendered":"Ken Agyapong&#8217;s comments \u201cunfortunate\u201d and irrelevant\u2013 Ashanti NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Sam Pyne says Ghanaians should disregard, what he calls, the unfortunate ethnic comments by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Agyapong is alleged to have said on some Accra-based radio stations, that Asantes are sabotaging one of the leading contenders for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo Addo\u2019s quest to become president.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly accused sympathizers of the party in the Ashanti Region, widely thought to be the stronghold of the NPP, of opposing \u00a0Nana Akufo Addo because he is an Akyem.<\/p>\n<p>The comments have been strongly condemned by several individuals and groups, including the Asante Youth Association <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/08\/25\/ashanti-youth-group-warns-kennedy-agyapong\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">who described them as \u201ccheap politics.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sam Pyne told Citi News that the comments made by Mr Agyapong \u201cunfortunate\u201d\u00a0 and should not be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that Mr. Agyapong\u2019s views were his own and was not the \u201cstance of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe there is any bad blood between the people of the Ashanti Region and Nana Addo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNana enjoys a lot of support from the Ashanti Region..there are very close relations between the Asantes and Akyems\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pyne added that the whole Asante-Akyem argument was a \u201cpropaganda piece from the stables of the NDC with Ben Ephson pushing that agenda seriously for them&#8221; \u00a0that should be disregarded by the supporters of the NPP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Sam Pyne says Ghanaians should disregard, what he calls, the unfortunate ethnic comments by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong. \u00a0 Mr. Agyapong is alleged to have said on some Accra-based radio stations, that Asantes are sabotaging one of the leading contenders for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":41784,"comment_status":"closed","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":[255,2056],"class_list":["post-41776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-airtel","tag-trump-asia-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41776","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=41776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}