{"id":113830,"date":"2015-05-05T06:28:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T06:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=113830"},"modified":"2015-05-05T06:28:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T06:28:40","slug":"ecowas-congratulates-togo-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=113830","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS congratulates Togo President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has congratulated Faure Essozimna Gnassingb\u00e9 on his swearing-in as President of the Republic of Togo following the election of April 25, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ZjAciD6rdALCjaHVkolHQJxQL9ZeHmVO&#8221;]A statement signed by the chairman of ECOWAS, President John Mahama said the swearing-in ceremony by Togo\u2019s Constitutional Court is another milestone in the consolidation of democracy in the West African sub-region.<\/p>\n<p>He described the just ended Togo election as a \u201cvictory for all the people of the Republic of Togo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ECOWAS saluted every individual who participated in the democratic process including members of the opposition and all domestic and international observers.<\/p>\n<p>President Gnassingb\u00e9 has been the President of Togo since 2005 following the death of his father, President Gnassingb\u00e9 Eyad\u00e9ma.<\/p>\n<p>In April this year, he was<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/29\/togo-elections-faure-gnassingbe-re-elected\/#sthash.or7rAYiN.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">re-elected to serve a third term<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>by winning the election by 58.75% while his main rival,\u00a0Jean-Pierre Fabre had 34.95%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has congratulated Faure Essozimna Gnassingb\u00e9 on his swearing-in as President of the Republic of Togo following the election of April 25, 2015. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ZjAciD6rdALCjaHVkolHQJxQL9ZeHmVO&#8221;]A statement signed by the chairman of ECOWAS, President John Mahama said the swearing-in ceremony by Togo\u2019s Constitutional Court is another milestone in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":113831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-113830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113830","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}