{"id":277236,"date":"2016-12-16T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T09:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277236"},"modified":"2016-12-16T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T09:18:22","slug":"theresa-may-lauds-nana-addos-impressive-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277236","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May lauds Nana Addo&#8217;s &#8216;impressive&#8217; election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has hailed President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo for what she described as his \u201cimpressive\u201d victory in the December elections.<\/p>\n<p>The British Prime Minster, in a letter, congratulated the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer for a &#8220;hard-fought campaign and that the margin of victory was impressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Theresa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133944\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Theresa.jpg\" alt=\"Theresa May\" width=\"634\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Theresa.jpg 634w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Theresa-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President John Mahama became the first incumbent to lose a re-election bid as Nana Akufo-Addo won the December presidential poll with an overwhelming 53.85% of the total valid votes cast, against the President Mahama&#8217;s 44.40%.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister May looked ahead with optimism to future collaboration as she noted that\u00a0\u201cour two countries share a strong and long-standing relationship, and one which I value deeply. I believe that the period ahead offers us a great opportunity to do more together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to continuing our excellent co-operation on defence, drugs, crime and national security, and to working together on challenges such as tackling corruption\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlongside our ongoing support to Ghana in areas such as governance, poverty reduction, education and health, I hope that we can look to deepen our economic co-operation,\u201d Prime Minister May<a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15267855_10154756395934836_6406725634522043713_n-1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> added in the letter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/theresa_may.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/theresa_may.jpg\" alt=\"theresa_may\" width=\"756\" height=\"856\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has hailed President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo for what she described as his \u201cimpressive\u201d victory in the December elections. The British Prime Minster, in a letter, congratulated the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer for a &#8220;hard-fought campaign and that the margin of victory was impressive.&#8221; President John Mahama became the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":275721,"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":[2356,3,56,14293,5646],"class_list":["post-277236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-elections","tag-ghana-news","tag-npp","tag-npp-election-victory","tag-theresa-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277236","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=277236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}