\u201cWe are closer now than never before to realising the fruits of our patience so let us not surrender our perseverance and the pride of nationalism to negativity or pessimism,” he said.<\/p>\n He followed this up with remarks further urging optimism on the part of Ghanaians later that evening at the Living Streams Ministries in Accra where he attended their 2015 Watch Night service.\u00a0 President Mahama said, \u201cWe need to be optimists, not pessimists. You find that those who have succeeded in life are born optimist because when they are faced with any challenge, the first thing that comes into their mind is, I can do it.\u201d President Mahama also stressed the need for peace and stability in this election year and tasked Ghanaians not to take for granted the tranquil and democratic atmosphere.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cThe fact that we sleep and wake up and we don\u2019t have to run away from our country because of acts of violence is something we must appreciate and continue to pray for…\u00a0As we enter 2016, may God continue to grant us that peace because without peace we have nothing. If we don\u2019t have peace and stability, you have nothing.\u201d\u00a0 President Mahama concluded saying, \u201cI\u2019m sure all of us have faith that this democratic journey that Ghana is on will continues successfully. We will have an election. There will be no violence and Ghana will be continued to be favored by God.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President John Mahama\u2019s New Year hope and philosophy for Ghana will be revolving around the \u201cGlass half full\u201d mantra. In the President\u2019s New Year message on New Year\u2019s Eve, he admonished Ghanaians to shed the shroud of negativity and pessimism as 2016 beckoned. \u201cWe are closer now than never before to realising the fruits of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178381","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=178381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"President](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-watch-night-service-at-the-living-streams-ministries_23987571502_o.jpg\")
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