The Member of Parliament for the Atwima Mponua constituency in Ashanti, Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah is set to become the next Minister of Youth and Sports, the President-elect's spokesperson Mustapha Hamid has disclosed.
Mr Hamid led a delegation that was sent by Nana Akufo Addo to meet with the Black stars players at the Alisa Hotel on Sunday in Accra.
Speaking during the meeting, Mr Hamid said Mr Asiamah who was part of the the delegation that met with the players will occupy the post of Sports Minister after he is vetted by Parliament.
Mr Asiamah is currently the Parliamentary select Committee chairman for Youth and Sports.
He hails from Tano Odumasi in the Ashanti Region and is married with three children.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Political Science from the University of Ghana, Legon and has also served on the Parliamentary Committees for Mines and Energy as well as the Public Accounts Committee in the past.
He polled 33,723 votes to retain the Atwima Mponua seat defeating Stephen Yeboah of the National Democratic Congress who had 22,450 votes in the 2016 general elections.
Asiamah has previously worked at the National Youth Secretariat.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Some of you guys can insult! Haba!!!
Hahaha! I laugh enter Atiwa forest. Are these the men NPP has been boasting of? This loose canon? Is shouting and not making sense one of the criteria for choosing a minister? We are going to be in very laughable times.
Akufo-Addo must be in Washington DC for Donald Trump's inauguration
I have a dog and it will contest 2020 general election as NPP presidential candidate all Asante tribalistic foo000000ls should go and vote for the dog okay.?
I like this guy he speaks well and appears to know his stuff.God bless you young man
Bad Choice! the other ones Nana has announced are good. The GFA boys are more experienced than him. They will outwit him. Nana Watch this one again
Itell you some ndc folks will get heart attack after January 7th. Hahahaha asheee mo de3. He is the next sports minister of Ghana. Anyway who are you to compare yourself to him to say look at this? Do you have somebody like him in the ndc? If ndc had decent and self made people they wouldn't be such incompetent to lose a humiliating defeat. Ndc lost a margin of 1.5 million how are you going to close this to win an election. Disgusting people,tribalistic and ethnocentric foooools.
Shame Ndc Hon Assiamah is 1000% competent far better than the Ndc ministers
HAHAHAA .SOME PEOPLE WILL GET HEART ATTACK FOR THE NEXT 16 YRS THAT MASTERS OF LIES AND PROPAGANDA NDC REMAINS IN OPPOSITION
LOOOK AT THIS 1DIIOOOT THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE A SPORTS MINISTER, GOD HELP THIS COUNTRY FROM THIS BRAGGING FUULLSSS......