{"id":59821,"date":"2014-10-27T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=59821"},"modified":"2014-10-27T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T10:16:56","slug":"kufour-heads-ecowas-election-mission-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=59821","title":{"rendered":"Kufour heads ECOWAS election mission to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Agyekum Kufuor will, on Tuesday, 28th\u00a0October, lead a delegation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to begin a three-day pre-Election Fact-Finding Mission of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The trip is to assess Nigeria\u2019s preparedness ahead of their elections in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;3KEHDo7WqT8oHIYXcGUpZUbYLlu4zegD&#8221;]Former President Kufuor leaves Ghana on Tuesday, 28th October and his mission will engage President Goodluck Jonathan and various political stakeholders to access the state of preparedness for Nigeria\u2019s general elections next year.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation will also meet with the Chairmen and National General Secretaries of the ruling People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition All People\u2019s Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>The mission is also expected to meet the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, and the Inspector General of Police, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Former Military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari has predicted that <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/09\/24\/brace-up-for-tougher-elections-buhari-urges-nigerians\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>next year\u2019s general elections will be tough<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and urged party members to collect their voters\u2019 card and hold on to them.<\/p>\n<p>He called on Nigerians not to vote in those he described as treasury looters, saying provision of free amenities was possible. He rolled out the party\u2019s package for Nigerians, promised improved infrastructure, water, electricity and improved education system for Nigerians, under the APC.<\/p>\n<p>The former President Kufour is currently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as the head of a delegation of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) for discussions on possible ways of funding with the Chairperson and officials of the African Union.<\/p>\n<p>The former President will leave Addis Ababa for Abuja on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Sammy Wiafe\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Agyekum Kufuor will, on Tuesday, 28th\u00a0October, lead a delegation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to begin a three-day pre-Election Fact-Finding Mission of Nigeria. The trip is to assess Nigeria\u2019s preparedness ahead of their elections in 2015. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;3KEHDo7WqT8oHIYXcGUpZUbYLlu4zegD&#8221;]Former President Kufuor leaves Ghana on Tuesday, 28th October and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":58962,"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":[2,5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-59821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59821","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}