The flagbearer of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) Dr. Edward Mahama is optimistic that the coming year will be a better one for the nation.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m a person of optimism and I know that 2016 will be a better year for all Ghanaians including Edward Mahama,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”4LY2KK3Tie6BW6CSvn2ONkzZ4BD0EzUR”]Dr. Mahama believes even though 2015 has been very difficult year, there is hope for a better future in 2016.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, Dr. Mahama said, “I want all Ghanaians to be one at this time. Lets enjoy the message of salvation and lets forgive one another and look forward to a better year in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n He acknowledges 2015 has been a difficult year on many fronts including health and the economy but he feels the\u00a0current situation will improve in the coming year if the right steps are taken.<\/p>\n Dr. Mahama will be contesting for the presidency on the ticket of the PNC in next year’s general election following his triumph in the PNC presidential primaries.<\/p>\n He\u00a0triumphed over Hassan Ayariga, the 2012 presidential candidate for the PNC in the recent party congress.<\/p>\n Dr Mahama, prior to 2012, was the PNC flagbearer in the 1996 presidential elections through to 2008.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The flagbearer of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) Dr. Edward Mahama is optimistic that the coming year will be a better one for the nation. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m a person of optimism and I know that 2016 will be a better year for all Ghanaians including Edward Mahama,\u201d he added. [contextly_sidebar id=”4LY2KK3Tie6BW6CSvn2ONkzZ4BD0EzUR”]Dr. Mahama believes even though 2015 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":167272,"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-177457","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\/177457","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}