{"id":126970,"date":"2015-06-22T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126970"},"modified":"2015-06-22T07:43:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T07:43:40","slug":"im-not-launching-my-political-career-ezenator-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126970","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not launching my political career &#8211; Ezenator Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings, Dr. Ezenator Rawlings, has debunked reports suggesting that she is using her relief support campaign to launch her political career.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that her activities over the weeks were geared towards raising funds for the victims of the recent fire and flood disaster and nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u00a0is important is what is happening on the ground; that is what matters and I don\u2019t think it&#8217;s necessary to point fingers and say someone is using this as a way of launching one thing or another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;IU1bxSBGNdflXPK9boBvfmMXXSmouDPY&#8221;]Dr. Ezenator Rawlings is the ambassador for TV3\u2019s fundraising campaign called \u201cTV3 June 3 Disaster Support Fund\u201d which is aimed at raising funds to support the victims of the June 3 flood and fire disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Her efforts have been widely interpreted to mean the beginning of her political career.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to these allegations in an interview with\u00a0<strong>Citi News,<\/strong> Ezenator said her efforts to help the disaster victims should not be politicized.<\/p>\n<p>She argued that it is unnecessary for people to assume that helping the victims is a ploy to acquaint herself with the people should she venture into politics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_127020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127020\" style=\"width: 667px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150620_112419.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127020\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150620_112419.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Ezenator Rawlings\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150620_112419.jpg 667w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150620_112419-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ezenator Rawlings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Rawlings remarked that\u00a0since the beginning of the campaign, she has never worn any outfit to suggest that she is aligned with any political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you see me wearing anything that promotes anything in particular?\u201d she asked, adding that, \u201cI\u2019m here in my normal gear helping just like everyone else is here. It\u2019s a communal effort and I think that we need to go beyond politicizing what needs to be done for people and what people need to do for themselves.\u201d<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings, Dr. Ezenator Rawlings, has debunked reports suggesting that she is using her relief support campaign to launch her political career. She stated that her activities over the weeks were geared towards raising funds for the victims of the recent fire and flood disaster and nothing more. \u201cWhat\u00a0is important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":127022,"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-126970","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\/126970","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=126970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}