{"id":170105,"date":"2015-11-27T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=170105"},"modified":"2015-11-27T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:42:46","slug":"mahama-has-already-selected-running-mate-omane-boamah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=170105","title":{"rendered":"Mahama has already selected running mate &#8211; Omane Boamah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Communications Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> President John Mahama has already settled on a running mate for Election 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although he has not mentioned any name, Dr. Omane Boamah said the President is only waiting for a Council of Elders and National Executive Committee meeting of the party for the declaration to be done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;baiVPl6dYT3VpcKgduRfbiRxXyyE0n6L&#8221;]Meanwhile, several names have popped up in the media as possible replacements for Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These include Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur, Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho, Foreign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh, former NHIA boss Sylvester Mensah and Accra mayor, Alfred Vanderpuije.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Speaker of Parliament has however distanced himself from the list of candidates considered for the second top job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adjaho told The Herald newspaper that \u201cI won\u2019t compete with my former lecturer for any position, including the position of the Vice President of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Umaru Sanda Amadu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has told Citi News President John Mahama has already settled on a running mate for Election 2016. Although he has not mentioned any name, Dr. Omane Boamah said the President is only waiting for a Council of Elders and National Executive Committee meeting of the party for the declaration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":165133,"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-170105","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\/170105","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}