{"id":275685,"date":"2016-12-09T14:39:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=275685"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:39:23","slug":"remain-calm-until-results-are-declared-kofi-annan-to-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=275685","title":{"rendered":"Remain calm until results are declared &#8211; Kofi Annan to candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary General of UN, Kofi Annan has called on presidential candidates to remain calm until the announcement of the final results by the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cthere is no reason for incitement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>EC conducted good election<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kofi Annan in a statement also congratulated the Electoral Commission and its staff for \u201cconducting a good election on 7 December, worthy of our democratic tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also applaud the support and the diligence of the electoral observers\u2013 national and international,&#8221;he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201c the people of Ghana are waiting and watching, let\u2019s not disappoint them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Annan further congratulated the five candidates who had already conceded defeat \u201cin light of the preliminary results and clear trends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the spirit of democracy, I call on the losers to concede as quickly as possible to defuse tensions and allay uncertainties,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[ !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary General of UN, Kofi Annan has called on presidential candidates to remain calm until the announcement of the final results by the Electoral Commission. According to him, \u201cthere is no reason for incitement.\u201d EC conducted good election Kofi Annan in a statement also congratulated the Electoral Commission and its staff for \u201cconducting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":225025,"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":[2647,2648,10,11],"tags":[3,2866],"class_list":["post-275685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-kofi-annan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275685","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=275685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}