{"id":1072,"date":"2014-02-20T08:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2014-02-20T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T08:06:06","slug":"elvis-afriyie-ankrah-faces-motion-of-no-confidence-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah faces motion of no confidence today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1073\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Elvis-Afriyie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1073\" alt=\"Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, Minister of Sports\" src=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Elvis-Afriyie-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, Minister of Sports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Citi Sports<\/strong> can report that a motion of no confidence will be tabled against the Minister of Youth and Sports, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, later today.<\/p>\n<p>The motion will be filed at a crisis meeting to be held at the Accra Sports Stadium at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi Sports<\/strong> understands that the 31 disciplines that make up the governing National Sports Authority have summoned Mr. Afriyie-Ankrah to today\u2019s meeting with the aim of getting answers to:<\/p>\n<p>i) what they say is his constant focus on football in general and the Black Stars in particular to the detriment of all other sporting disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>ii) what they say is his worrying lack of traction in executing the pledges he made various sporting disciplines since assuming office.<\/p>\n<p>Several heads of the various sporting disciplines have confirmed to Citi Sports that should Mr Afriyie-Ankrah be unable to provide satisfactory answers, a petition to force him out of his position will be a likely outcome of the meeting.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/citisports\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">#citisports<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gary.africa\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=137423903006934&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D\">Gary Al-Smith<\/a>\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi Sports can report that a motion of no confidence will be tabled against the Minister of Youth and Sports, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, later today. The motion will be filed at a crisis meeting to be held at the Accra Sports Stadium at 2pm. Citi Sports understands that the 31 disciplines that make up the governing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}