{"id":91323,"date":"2025-08-25T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=91323"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:55:33","slug":"kennedy-agyapong-to-submit-npp-presidential-nomination-forms-on-wednesday-august-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=91323","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Agyapong to submit NPP presidential nomination forms on Wednesday, August 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>49 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><div>\n<p>Assin Central MP and New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential hopeful, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, will officially submit his nomination forms for the party\u2019s 2026 presidential primaries on Monday, August 27, 2025, at the NPP headquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by Nhyiaeso MP and a key member of his campaign team, Stephen Amoah, who disclosed that Mr Agyapong will personally lead his team to file the forms.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Agyapong became the first aspirant to pick up nomination forms for the January 31, 2026 primaries after a group of NPP MPs, including Kwaku Kwarteng (Obuasi West), Charles Forson (Tema West), Stephen Amoah (Nhyiaeso), and Lawrence Agyinsam (Hemang Lower Denkyira), picked them up on his behalf on August 5.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"src=\"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-45.jpg\" alt=\"Kennedy Agyapong to submit NPP presidential nomination forms on Wednesday, August 27\" class=\"wp-image-10032833975\" title=\"Kennedy Agyapong to submit NPP presidential nomination forms on Wednesday, August 27\" 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title=\"Kennedy Agyapong to submit NPP presidential nomination forms on Wednesday, August 27\">Assin Central MP and New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential hopeful, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, will officially submit his nomination forms for the party\u2019s 2026 presidential primaries on Monday, August 27, 2025, at the NPP headquarters in Accra. This was confirmed by Nhyiaeso MP and a key member of his campaign team, Stephen Amoah, who disclosed that [\u2026]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1900,443,117,1881,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hp-news-2","category-kennedy-agyapong","category-news","category-npp","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}