{"id":208631,"date":"2016-04-22T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=208631"},"modified":"2016-04-22T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:15:40","slug":"mahama-rawlings-nana-addo-pay-last-respect-to-jake-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=208631","title":{"rendered":"Mahama, Rawlings, Nana Addo pay last respect to Jake [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final funeral rites for the former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi Lamptey is currently underway at the forecourt of the State House.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208632\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160422030321.jpg\" alt=\"20160422030321\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some dignitaries including President John Mahama, former President Rawlings and Nana Akufo Addo are present at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208656\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/c8318dba-af09-46bb-966e-8128b66247e0.jpg\" alt=\"c8318dba-af09-46bb-966e-8128b66247e0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The late Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey\u00a0served as the first Chief of Staff , Minister of Information and Presidential Affairs, as well as Minister of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City under the erst-while Kufuor administration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208634\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160422030321-2.jpg\" alt=\"20160422030321 (2)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was also the National Campaign Manager of the NPP during the 2000 Presidential elections, which saw the first constitutional (civilian-to-civilian) transition of power.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208655\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4dbb0b36-2f27-437f-b5e9-094253d5266a.jpg\" alt=\"4dbb0b36-2f27-437f-b5e9-094253d5266a\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He resigned his posts in July 2007 to campaign for the NPP nomination for the 2008 Presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208637\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/9ba11c93-1659-4bde-8363-92fefad38608.jpg\" alt=\"9ba11c93-1659-4bde-8363-92fefad38608\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As at February 2010, he was the National Chairman of the NPP.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208654\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2f401faf-f1a3-4d52-9b16-b048b834516f.jpg\" alt=\"2f401faf-f1a3-4d52-9b16-b048b834516f\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Photo credit: Sandister Tei<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final funeral rites for the former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi Lamptey is currently underway at the forecourt of the State House. Some dignitaries including President John Mahama, former President Rawlings and Nana Akufo Addo are present at the ceremony. The late Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey\u00a0served as the first Chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":208639,"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-208631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208631","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=208631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}