{"id":302017,"date":"2017-03-15T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=302017"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:06:33","slug":"govt-size-akufo-addo-vrs-mahama-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=302017","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t size: Akufo-Addo vrs. Mahama [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo is the first head of state in the 4th Republic to have more than a hundred (100) ministers serve in his government.<\/p>\n<p>He has beaten his predecessor, John Mahama, by 26 appointees. John Mahama had 84 ministers &#8211; deputies included.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes after\u00a0Nana Addo named 50 deputy ministers and 4 new ministers of state today [Wednesday], March 15, 2017, bringing the total to 110 ministers.<\/p>\n<p>The number includes those appointed as Regional ministers, deputy regional ministers, substantive ministers and their deputies, and ministers of state at the presidency\/ministry.<\/p>\n<p>See the infographic below for a comparison between President Akufo-Addo and former President, John Mahama.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/15\/govt-size-akufo-addo-vrs-mahama-infographic\/nana-vs-mahama-ministers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-302019\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Nana-vs-Mahama-ministers-698x1024.png\" alt=\"nana-vs-mahama-ministers\" width=\"701\" height=\"1029\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NB: Akufo-Addo&#8217;s ministers of state (Presidency\/Ministry) number include ministers for security and parliamentary affairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnyabor\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @jnyabor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>!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>President Akufo-Addo is the first head of state in the 4th Republic to have more than a hundred (100) ministers serve in his government. He has beaten his predecessor, John Mahama, by 26 appointees. John Mahama had 84 ministers &#8211; deputies included. This development comes after\u00a0Nana Addo named 50 deputy ministers and 4 new ministers [&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":[2419,10,11],"tags":[2802,3,128,312],"class_list":["post-302017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infographics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-ministers","tag-ghana-news","tag-john-mahama","tag-nana-akufo-addo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302017","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=302017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}