{"id":151738,"date":"2015-09-15T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=151738"},"modified":"2015-09-15T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T18:14:11","slug":"crumbling-economy-mahama-is-resilient-any-other-person-wouldve-collapsed-prof-delle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=151738","title":{"rendered":"Crumbling economy: Mahama is resilient, any other person would&#8217;ve &#8216;collapsed&#8217; &#8211; Prof. Delle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A veteran\u00a0politician, Professor Edmund Delle has commended President Mahama for his resilience in managing Ghana&#8217;s\u00a0economy despite the many socio-economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both local and international economic factors, have conspired to force government to enter into a 3-year deal with International Monetary Fund (IMF), after the cedi fell sharply, inflation rose to alarming proportions, among many other issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prices of two of Ghana&#8217;s major income earners; gold and oil,\u00a0fell sharply to all time lows and forced government to even revise the 2015 budget downwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI think he is the president that has had the toughest presidency that we had ever had but I think he is resilient, any other person under the crisis could have easily broken down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the &#8216;Time with the Legends&#8217; segment on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, Prof. Delle attributed the situation to the current times the country finds itself in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Delle who is also contesting as the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/14\/edmund-delle-stages-comeback-for-cpp-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chairman of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP)<\/a><\/strong><\/span> however raised concerns about the limited use of experienced hands in the governance system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, some of the challenges the Mahama-led administration is facing is because there are too many inexperienced people in his team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYoung people are very ambitious people they have the knowledge and they don\u2019t have experience and we [elderly] have seen it all, so we can caution them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Delle is returning to contest the Chairmanship position after eight years of withdrawing from active politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran\u00a0politician, Professor Edmund Delle has commended President Mahama for his resilience in managing Ghana&#8217;s\u00a0economy despite the many socio-economic challenges. Both local and international economic factors, have conspired to force government to enter into a 3-year deal with International Monetary Fund (IMF), after the cedi fell sharply, inflation rose to alarming proportions, among many other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":151718,"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":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-151738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151738","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}