{"id":7940,"date":"2014-03-23T05:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T05:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2014-03-23T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T13:33:58","slug":"age-does-not-matter-in-politics-franklin-cudjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=7940","title":{"rendered":"Age doesn&#8217;t matter in politics &#8211; Franklin Cudjoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7902\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Franklin-Cudjoe-imani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7902\" alt=\"Franklin-Cudjoe, Imani\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Franklin-Cudjoe-imani-299x300.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Franklin-Cudjoe-imani-299x300.jpg 299w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Franklin-Cudjoe-imani-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Franklin-Cudjoe-imani-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Franklin-Cudjoe-imani.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franklin-Cudjoe, Imani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Executive Director of policy Think-Tank, Imani Ghana,\u00a0<strong>Franklin Cudjoe<\/strong>\u00a0has rubbished suggestions that Nana Akufo-Addo should take a back stage in Ghanaian politics due to his age.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Nana Akufo-Addo<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>recently declared his intention to contest the New Patriotic Party\u2019s \u00a0flag bearer race and if possible, lead the party during the 2016 Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>His critics, especially those from the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) said he was ageing and should give up in the Presidential contest.<\/p>\n<p>But contributing to\u00a0<strong>Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s current affairs and news analysis\u00a0<span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"43f2fb08-8d8d-4daa-ada8-dbc7e96eda0c\"><span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"4841e603-b728-4a01-9df4-c2bd909d5320\">programme<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<strong><em>The Big Issue<\/em><\/strong>, Franklin Cudjoe disagreed with such political pundits and opined that age does not matter in politics.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, age should not be a determining factor when one is seeking the highest office of the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled, \u201cFirst they said this man was a cocaine dealer, he doesn\u2019t smile and that he is arrogant but he got five million votes during the last elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cudjoe insisted that there was nothing wrong with the NPP 2012 flag bearer\u2019s decision to contest the 2016 Presidential election at age 72.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore suggested that Ghanaian politicians should decouple age from who is qualified to lead the country as President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand that if we do not\u00a0<span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"69672c98-69b0-4ede-9c20-d1f63c662999\"><span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"833cf575-4056-460c-bb95-0626a2bc9f11\">delink<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the issues of age from the way we do our national politics we will be running ourselves down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Director of policy Think-Tank, Imani Ghana,\u00a0Franklin Cudjoe\u00a0has rubbished suggestions that Nana Akufo-Addo should take a back stage in Ghanaian politics due to his age. Nana Akufo-Addo\u00a0recently declared his intention to contest the New Patriotic Party\u2019s \u00a0flag bearer race and if possible, lead the party during the 2016 Presidential election. His critics, especially those from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7902,"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":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","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=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}