{"id":261032,"date":"2016-10-24T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=261032"},"modified":"2016-10-24T06:30:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T06:30:44","slug":"mahama-can-go-debate-akua-donkor-ayariga-john-boadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=261032","title":{"rendered":"Mahama can go debate Akua Donkor, Ayariga &#8211; John Boadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) acting General Secretary and National Campaign Coordinator, John Boadu, has told President John Mahama to go and debate one of the failed presidential aspirants, Akua Donkor or Hassan Ayariga, if he is eager for\u00a0such an encounter.<\/p>\n<p>He made this remark\u00a0in response to the President Mahama challenge to the NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo for a debate.<\/p>\n<p>In recent rebuttals to President Mahama\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/20\/ghanaians-deserve-debate-between-nana-addo-and-me-mahama\/\">recent challenges<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to debate Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP has also asked for a response to the 170 questions running mate Dr, Mahamadu Bawumia asked\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/08\/bawumia-to-deliver-lecture-on-ghanas-economy-today\/\">during his lecture<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0on the state of the Ghanaian economy in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mahama-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-257715\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mahama-3.jpg\" alt=\"mahama-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addressing party supporters at Gomoa Obuasi in the Gomoa Central constituency on Sunday, Mr. Boadu said President Mahama\u2019s recent challenges was evidence of the desperation of someone who can smell defeat from afar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is someone who knows he has lost the elections already. John Mahama is struggling, he is struggling so much that he is calling Nana Addo for a debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are telling him that if he wants a debate, he and Akua Donkor can go and debate. He and Hassan Ayariga can go and debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boadu\u00a0also called for vigilance at the polls from all NPP supporters urging them to remain at the polling stations till winners were declared by the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t leave the work for the polling agents. All of you should turn into polling agents on that day. For everyone who votes, it they don\u2019t declare the winner, don\u2019t go anywhere, remain at the polling station,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) acting General Secretary and National Campaign Coordinator, John Boadu, has told President John Mahama to go and debate one of the failed presidential aspirants, Akua Donkor or Hassan Ayariga, if he is eager for\u00a0such an encounter. He made this remark\u00a0in response to the President Mahama challenge to the NPP flagbearer, [&hellip;]<\/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":[58,10,11],"tags":[2356,3,2782,128,129,56],"class_list":["post-261032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-elections","tag-ghana-news","tag-john-boadu","tag-john-mahama","tag-ndc","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261032","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=261032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}