{"id":1262,"date":"2021-02-15T10:33:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T10:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2021-02-15T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T10:33:40","slug":"h-e-paa-kofi-ansong-wins-as-eastern-regional-representative-to-the-council-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/h-e-paa-kofi-ansong-wins-as-eastern-regional-representative-to-the-council-of-state\/","title":{"rendered":"H. E. PAA KOFI ANSONG WINS  AS EASTERN REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE  TO THE COUNCIL OF STATE ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0008-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0008-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0008-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0008-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0008.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0011-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0011-300x252.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0011-768x645.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0011-1024x860.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG-20210212-WA0011.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His Excellency Paa Kofi Ansong, a former appointed Member of Council of State ( 2017 -2021) and an astute businessman has been elected as the Eastern&nbsp; Regional representative to the Council of State.<\/p>\n<p>All the 66 electoral college selected from the 33 Municipal and District Assemblies in the Region voted for&nbsp; him representing 100% of the total vote cast.<\/p>\n<p>The other two contestants,&nbsp; Mr. Ernest Amemakuse, a 35year&nbsp; old teacher and Mr. James Amanor Ossom 61year old&nbsp; farmer recorded zero vote each.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;In a brief statement, H. E Paa Kofi Ansong thanked the Assembly Members for giving him 100% of their votes and assured that he would continue to serve Eastern Region and Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Present at the event were the Senior Minister Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo, Eastern Regional Minister,&nbsp; Hon. Eric Kwakye Darfour,&nbsp; Eastern Regional Minister designate,&nbsp; Hon. Seth Kwame Acheampong,&nbsp; New Patriotic Party Regional Chairman,&nbsp; Hon. Akomeng Kissi,&nbsp; Hon. Deputy Eastern&nbsp; Regional Minister,&nbsp; Hon. Samuel Nuertey Ayertey, MPs and some leading members of the NPP party from National and Regional offices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<p>PR unit<\/p>\n<p>ERCC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Excellency Paa Kofi Ansong, a former appointed Member of Council of State ( 2017 -2021) and an astute businessman has been elected as the Eastern&nbsp; Regional representative to the Council of State. All the 66 electoral college selected from the 33 Municipal and District Assemblies in the Region voted for&nbsp; him representing 100% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easternregion.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}