{"id":2749,"date":"2024-12-14T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2024-12-14T06:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T06:44:03","slug":"husband-and-wife-lose-elections-in-different-constituencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/husband-and-wife-lose-elections-in-different-constituencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband and Wife lose Elections in Different Constituencies."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Charles Cromwell Bissue and his wife, Nana Ama Dokuaa Asiamah-Adjei, a presidential staffer and deputy Information Minister, respectively, had ambitions to become the first Ghanaian couple in the legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, fate had other plans, and they failed to achieve this historic feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charles, the NPP’s parliamentary candidate for the Essikado-Ketan constituency, lost the election to Dr. Grace Ayensu Danquah of the National Democratic Congress. His wife, Nana Ama, who represented the Akuapem North constituency, had decided not to seek re-election and instead contested the Okaikwei North constituency, winning the NPP primaries. However, she lost the general election to Theresa Lardy Awuni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their loss shattered their dreams of making history as the first Ghanaian couple in parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Husband and Wife lose Elections in Different Constituencies.<\/p>\n

Charles Cromwell Bissue and his wife, Nana Ama Dokuaa Asiamah-Adjei, a presidential staffer and deputy Information Minister, respectively, had ambitions to become the first Ghanaian couple in the legislature.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, fate had other plans, and they failed to achieve this historic feat.<\/p>\n

Charles, the NPP’s parliamentary candidate for the Essikado-Ketan constituency, lost the election to Dr. Grace Ayensu Danquah of the National Democratic Congress. His wife, Nana Ama, who represented the Akuapem North constituency, had decided not to seek re-election and instead contested the Okaikwei North constituency, winning the NPP primaries. However, she lost the general election to Theresa Lardy Awuni.<\/p>\n

Their loss shattered their dreams of making history as the first Ghanaian couple in parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}