{"id":130621,"date":"2015-07-02T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=130621"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:40:14","slug":"discharge-your-duties-creditably-paul-afoko-to-ec-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=130621","title":{"rendered":"Discharge your duties creditably &#8211; Paul Afoko to EC Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko has charged the new Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei to strive to perform her duties creditably.<\/p>\n<p>He believes her effectiveness will enable her surmount various challenges at\u00a0he Commission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130070\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/19287648832_3210d42614_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130070\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/19287648832_3210d42614_z.jpg\" alt=\"President Mahama and Charlotte Osei\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/19287648832_3210d42614_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/19287648832_3210d42614_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Mahama and Charlotte Osei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Citi News, the NPP Chairman also stated that Mrs. Osei will need the support of every Ghanaian to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has come in to inherit a lot of challenges and I just pray that she will be up to those challenges. I believe that she is well experienced enough and that if we all approach her with the goodwill that our democratic dispensation requires of us then she will discharge her duties creditably,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Osei replaced Afari Gyan who has been serving as the EC Boss for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama\u00a0gave Dr.\u00a0Afari Gyan highest national award for his service to the nation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130393\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19314888662_e1a8fc5f47_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130393\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19314888662_e1a8fc5f47_z.jpg\" alt=\"President John Mahama decorating Dr. Afari Gyan the former EC Chairman with the Commander of the Order of the Star of Ghana Honorary Division\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19314888662_e1a8fc5f47_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19314888662_e1a8fc5f47_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President John Mahama decorating Dr. Afari Gyan the former EC Chairman with the Commander of the Order of the Star of Ghana Honorary Division<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The award, Companion of the Order of Star of Ghana was presented by the President on Wednesday at the Flag Staff House in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko has charged the new Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei to strive to perform her duties creditably. He believes her effectiveness will enable her surmount various challenges at\u00a0he Commission. &nbsp; Speaking in an interview with Citi News, the NPP Chairman also stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":119548,"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":[],"class_list":["post-130621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130621","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=130621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}