{"id":255579,"date":"2016-10-06T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=255579"},"modified":"2016-10-06T18:38:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:38:39","slug":"ppps-eva-lokko-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=255579","title":{"rendered":"PPP&#8217;s Eva Lokko dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running mate for the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP) during the 2012 elections, Eva Lokko, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Party sources confirmed to <strong>citifmonline.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Lokko, who was also the party\u2019s parliamentary hopeful for the Klottey Korle constituency died today [ Thursday] after a short illness.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253949\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253949\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eva-lokko.jpg\" alt=\"Eva Lokko\" width=\"768\" height=\"415\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Lokko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The former Managing Director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation had hopes of contesting the\u00a0Klottey Korle constituency seat on the ticket of the PPP.<\/p>\n<p>She however could not file her nomination to contest the election due to ill-health.<\/p>\n<p>Eva\u00a0Lokko was an engineer before moving into politics. She was appointed to head the state broadcaster during the era of former President Kufuor.<\/p>\n<p>Her days at the GBC however ended abruptly after some persons at the station rose up against her managerial approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running mate for the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP) during the 2012 elections, Eva Lokko, has passed away. Party sources confirmed to citifmonline.com. Eva Lokko, who was also the party\u2019s parliamentary hopeful for the Klottey Korle constituency died today [ Thursday] after a short illness. The former Managing Director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation had hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":198412,"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":[10,11],"tags":[12205,12411,3],"class_list":["post-255579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-eva-lokko","tag-eva-lokko-dead","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255579","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}