{"id":211881,"date":"2025-10-30T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-paul-afoko-declares-intent-to-contest-npp-national-chairmanship\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:32:48","slug":"ghana-paul-afoko-declares-intent-to-contest-npp-national-chairmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-paul-afoko-declares-intent-to-contest-npp-national-chairmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Paul Afoko Declares Intent to Contest NPP National Chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko, has officially declared his intention to contest the party&#8217;s national chairmanship position in the upcoming internal elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In a statement issued on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, Mr. Afoko said his decision followed &#8220;extensive reflection and encouragement&#8221; from party members, supporters, and stakeholders who believe in his leadership and commitment to the NPP&#8217;s founding principles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">He said his bid to return to the leadership&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510290519.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko, has officially declared his intention to contest the party&#8217;s national chairmanship position in the upcoming internal elections. In a statement issued on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, Mr. Afoko said his decision followed &#8220;extensive reflection and encouragement&#8221; from party members, supporters, and stakeholders who believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[52730,258,256,14301,12667,7030,4508,4509,22122,6687,257,15763,10695,254],"class_list":["post-211881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-afoko","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chairmanship","tag-contest","tag-declares","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-intent","tag-national","tag-news","tag-npp","tag-paul","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}