{"id":48740,"date":"2018-07-27T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=48740"},"modified":"2018-07-27T06:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T06:33:47","slug":"john-dumelo-to-contest-for-a-political-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/john-dumelo-to-contest-for-a-political-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dumelo To Contest For A Political Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific actor, John Dumelo has finally declared his intentions to become a full politician.<\/p>\n<p>John revealed that he hopes to start his political journey by\u00a0capturing one seat in the Volta Region where he hails.<\/p>\n<p>He made this known through an interview he had with ghanacelebrities.com on the state of politics in Ghana and how the governing NPP is faring.<\/p>\n<p>John Dumelo is optimistic of winning the seat. But his challenge according to him, is winning the Primaries; a feat he agrees will be very difficult because of the perception that he came to meet a queue.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that he knows he needs a strong financial background to push through. Hence, he believes his farms and other businesses will be of support to him to prevent him from owing financiers who will push him to be corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>The actor also disclosed his new found love for sports gambling and the fact that he is making some good money from betting.<\/p>\n<p>John Dumelo during the 2016 election declared his political stance as an NDC member.\u00a0 He took center stage during the campaign for John Dramani Mahama only to see him lose to President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific actor, John Dumelo has finally declared his intentions to become a full politician. 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