{"id":103897,"date":"2015-03-30T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=103897"},"modified":"2015-03-30T17:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:53:50","slug":"kufour-in-closed-door-meeting-with-goodluck-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=103897","title":{"rendered":"Kufour in closed door meeting with Goodluck Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana\u2019s former President, John Agyekum Kufour is currently in a closed door meeting with incumbent President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ED7YDUf9i455KgkcMZpNPWNr5njPPtln&#8221;]Kufour who is the leader of the ECOWAS Election Observers has declared the Nigeria elections which started on Saturday as \u201c<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/30\/nigerian-elections-a-success-say-observers-despite-hitches\/#sthash.3qI1dBoo.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>peaceful and transparent<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u201d despite reports of pockets of violence and <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/28\/nigeria-president-jonathans-verification-delayed-by-technical-problems\/#sthash.WEGL4CfR.k\" target=\"_blank\">technical hitches<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Punch Newspaper, \u201cthe meeting which started inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja at about 3.30pm [Nigerian Time] is also being attended by Vice President Namadi Sambo and a few presidential aides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan from the People&#8217;s Democratic Party (PDP) is facing a strong challenge from former military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari from the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Nigeria\u2019s National Electoral Commission (INEC) has started receiving provisional results from its collating officers from the nations\u2019 36 states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far provisional results from <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/30\/nigeria-elections-collation-officers-present-results-to-inec\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>nine states puts Goodluck Jonathan\u00a0ahead<\/strong><\/a><\/span> with 2,421,839 while, Muhammadu Buhari is galloping behind with 2,342,742<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other election observers who are part of the meeting include former Liberian President, Amos Sawyer, who is leading the African Union Election Observer Mission; former Malawian President and Head of Commonwealth Election Observer Mission, Bakili Muluzi; and the AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Ambassador Aisha Laraba Abdullahi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s former President, John Agyekum Kufour is currently in a closed door meeting with incumbent President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan. 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